Certainly blindness and sight" illuminate metaphors throughout Sophocles' masterpiece work Oedipus Rex. ... In a "grande" scheme, Oedipus was written just after the first Peloponnesian War (with Sparta) and soon after the plague that carried off 1/3 of all Athens' inhabitants and their beloved Pericles (who was a close friend of Sophocles). ... Athenians, on the other hand, were more cultured and spiritual and thus more refined and this play was a message of "Hope " to Sophocles' audience (Athenians) in the face of complete annihilation by Sparta. ...

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Through the addition of a second actor (by Aeschylus) and a third (by Sophocles), the representation was made possible of a drama which could show and develop a human situation in all its aspects. ... He deviates from morality or from a full knowledge of his situation, and his deviation destroys him .In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex the hero is a good-hearted but headstrong young man who kills his own father and marries his mother without knowing that they are his parents. ...

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Having these edifices constructed, Pericles, the leader of the democratic faction and a friend of Sophocles, dreamt of Athens as the leader of a panhellenic confederacy, as an ideal democracy, and above all as a city with magnificent edifices, temples, public buildings and theatres, (Durant). ...

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