Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. Lecture 10 by Michael Davis

we're not reading it out of order the dramatic gourd I think Antigone was written first it's the old I mean so these were not a trilogy so maybe that's why they do it but the order the dramatic order is clearly the order were reading in them in because in Oedipus at Colonus Edith pisses blind and has been

exiled from Thebes and in and the Antigone he's dead and she's you know responding to the war between her two brothers and so I'm just thinking what if what a big I had argued I still think that the most impressive character in the Oresteia is quite a master and part of the proof of that is that she's the

only character that spans all three plays but of course crayons the only character that spans all three plays in this group and he's not the most impressive character I think

well I think that there's evidence in the play that we have no reason to believe that she knows knows at the beginning of the play but halfway through it looks as though she's figured it out before he has and that's why she doesn't want to be continued so when exactly that happens that'd be an

interesting question to figure out when if you can when in the play she begins to wonder about this but there are certainly grounds I mean we you'll see right he's he walks into town we're told in the play later that he looks a lot like Leia's he limps he comes from well the that that doesn't count with her but

so she looks a lot like his father there was an Oracle saying that he was going to kill his father after he came into town his father I mean we'll see a problem with that too but the father dies and either this comes so it wouldn't take much for Jocasta to start putting this stuff together so I