Two Grecian literary legends, Achilles from Homer's Iliad and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, fit the description of an Aristotelian tragic hero. ... The titular character from Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, also corresponds with Aristotle's idea of a tragic hero. ... In response, Oedipus says, "Not twice shall you say calumnies like this and go unpunished" (Sophocles 433). ... Sophocles writes, "Then, as she lay, poor woman, on the ground, what happened after, was terrible to see. ... Sophocles's titular character Oedipus is also a tragic hero because of his hamar...

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Sophocles was one of the more political playwrights. ... Socrates's play made the audience not only know that they are flawed, but they now can face tomorrow with the knowledge that Sophocles' play has given them. ...

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The significance of the word hero still gets its roots from the traditional hero, but its meaning has changed to a point where it has become difficult to recognize it, so difficult that some mythologists say a true hero no longer exits. Heroes exist, but they don't symbolize the true hero. A very co...

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