![]() ![]() In his introduction to the 1950 Vintage Books edition of Oedipus Rex, Princeton professor Whitney J. The foundational debatable issue for the unit we designed on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex was this one. Which is what I did with a partner high school this past spring. And of course argumentalizing the study of Sophocles’ genre-forging work begins with formulating an arguable question. ![]() In light of this status, we’d want to be sure we can argumentalize a unit on Oedipus Rex, right? First performed in 439 BCE, and cited repeatedly in Aristotle’s Poetics for its exemplary features of poetic drama, the play functions in our literary tradition as a kind of ghostly template - certainly over the stage, but over all that can be called tragic narrative too - faintly echoing behind globalized civilization’s literary arts. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is arguably where Western literature begins. ![]()
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