E.R. Dodds claimed that "human happiness is built on an illusion" in an essay about "Misunderstanding" this play.
E.R. Dodds claimed that "human happiness is built on an illusion" in an essay about "Misunderstanding" this play. It ends with the advice to "count no mortal happy" until his death, and it opens with a priest giving a speech about an ongoing plague, after which the protagonist announces the return of a man sent to Delphi. At a climactic moment in this play, a messenger is revealed to have once been a (*) shepherd on Mount Cithaeron, where he found a baby which was later raised by Polybus and Merope. It precedes a play set at Colonus in its author's Theban trilogy, and it centers on a man who blinds himself after learning of his true relation to Laius and Jocasta. For 10 points, name this Sophocles play about a man who kills his father and marries his mother.
E.R. Dodds claimed that "human happiness is built on an illusion" in an essay about "Misunderstanding" this play.
Oedipus Rex [or Oedipus the King; or Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oidipous Turannos]