Two Legs in the Afternoon

Aristotle thought that Ettipus the king was the most superb of all Greek plays, particularly because of its construction. The main idea of this episode is that in his prime King EttipUS was a powerful, brilliant leader who sought the truth against the warnings of the people he knew. On the two legs of his magnificent adulthood, Ettipu defeated the Sphinx and brought thebes to great heights of prosperity. This prosperity didn't last. In one of the play's more famous lines, the old prophet Tyreseus warns Ettipos: "He that came seeing blind, shall he go rich now?"