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A review by amiray
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
4.0
The Oedipus Cycle is the epitome of Greek tragedies.
Oedipus Rex is the beginning... Classic.
I felt like Oedipus at Colonus was more of a placeholder/transition into Antigone. It’s purpose, I think, was just to end Oedipus’s story.
Antigone is by far my favorite in the Oedipus Cycle. It contains some similar components to Oedipus Rex (prophecy, the wives killing themselves, not acting on prophecy early enough... etc.).
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”
Oedipus Rex is the beginning... Classic.
I felt like Oedipus at Colonus was more of a placeholder/transition into Antigone. It’s purpose, I think, was just to end Oedipus’s story.
Antigone is by far my favorite in the Oedipus Cycle. It contains some similar components to Oedipus Rex (prophecy, the wives killing themselves, not acting on prophecy early enough... etc.).
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”