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65-Oedipus: Motherboy

Myths and Legends

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Antigone: A Dramatic Commentary on Fatalism

The story of Edipus is pretty well known and made all the more famous by certain misguided psychologist naming a probably not real childhood complex after it. Sophocles ends his play with a bright and cheerful little admonishment from Krayon that you never know what the days ahead of you will hold. So count no man blessed until he's dead. That's the end, yeah.

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