Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (TRIH ep 603, part 2)
431 BCE · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History examines the myth of Oedipus and its cultural afterlife. Holland and Sandbrook retell the Sophoclean tragic plot—Laius and Jocasta, the abandoned infant with pierced ankles, Oedipus' encounter with the Sphinx, his rise to power in Thebes, and the catastrophic recognition and fallout—while placing the play in broader mythic cycles (Cadmus, the Spartoi, the Seven against Thebes) and…
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Around 431 BCE
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)