Oedipus Rex (In Our Time)
429 BCE · Resource
Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: the murderer of the old king of Thebes, Laius, has never been identified or caught, and he’s still at large in the city. Oedipus is the current king of Thebes, and he sets out to solve the crime. His investigations lead to a devastating conclusion. Not only is Oedipus himself the killer, but Laius was his fa
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Around 429 BCE
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- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
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- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)