Oedipus (Euripides)
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Oedipus (Euripides)
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Oedipus is a play by the 5th-century BCE Athenian dramatist Euripides. The play is now lost except for some fragments. What survives of the play covers similar ground as Sophocles' acclaimed Oedipus Rex, but scholars and historians have found there are significant differences. In Oedipus Rex, the title character blinds himself upon learning his true parentage, accidentally killing his father and marrying his mother Jocasta. In Euripides' play, however, it appears Oedipus is blinded by a servant
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Lost play by Euripides
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_(Euripides)
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2024-02-21T21:27:09Z
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