This play begins with people carrying tree branches wrapped in wool, and ends with the Chorus asserting that "mortal man must always look to his ending.
Max Reinhardt revived interest in this play in 1910, and Jean Cocteau collaborated with Stravinsky to create an operatic version of it. Dodds argued that this work illustrates the "desperate insecurity of the human condition" instead of justifying the gods in an essay titled "on misunderstanding" this play. This play begins with people carrying tree branches wrapped in wool, and ends with the Chorus asserting that "mortal man must always look to his ending." The protagonist resolves to die on Mount Cithaeron after talking with a shepherd, and accuses Tiresias of plotting against him with Creon. In this play, the protagonist's desire to know the source of a pestilence afflicting his city eventually leads him to gouge out his eyes. FTP, name this tragedy about a ruler of Thebes who learns that he killed Laius and married his mother, written by Sophocles.
Max Reinhardt revived interest in this play in 1910, and Jean Cocteau collaborated with Stravinsky to create an operatic version of it.
{Oedipus Rex} [or {Oedipus} the {King} or {Oedipus Tyrranus} or {King Oedipus}]