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The Oedipus Plays were written by Sophocles and were first performed around 429 BCE. This guide includes detailed discussions of the plays Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles’s cycle of plays explores themes associated with the tragic conflict arising from a paradox in human nature: a desire for freedom and power coupled with an awareness of fate (or the will of the gods). Throughout the plays, clear vision serves as a metaphor for insight into the human condition, although that insight is oftentimes limited.
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