A king discovers a horrifying truth about himself — the original tragedy.
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The play that invented the detective story, inspired Freud, and defined tragedy itself — Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is still the most merciless plot ever constructed.
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Produced by Sigal Alon, Turgut Dincer, R. Cedron and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net OEDIPUS KING OF THEBES BY SOPHOCLES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY GILBERT MURRAY LL.D., D.LITT., F.B.A…
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