Episode 2, lines 873-896
Choral ode on hubris and the gods: 'Insolence breeds the tyrant' — meditation on pride and divine order.
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From Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The play dramatizes the inexorability of divine prophecy against human striving to escape it — Oedipus's every choice fulfills the oracle he flees.
Exodos, lines 1329-1335
Oedipus attributes his suffering to Apollo, yet claims the blinding as his own act — the fate/agency tension.
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