Episode 30: Two Legs in the Afternoon (Sophocles' Oedipus the King)
Literature and History
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Oedipus the King's Strategy
Sophocles' play Oedipus the King opens with a plague. The city of Athens in 429 BCE is blighted by sickness, writes Andrew Keen. In Sophocles' audience, though they were losing or had just lost paracles, Sophocle's audience was still surrounded by glory as well as death," says Keen.
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