Oedipus - King of Riddles
Oedipus: King Of Riddles?
In Greek mythology the oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their
predictions of the future. Yet the characters still try to fight the
predictions. Do their personalities and traits decide their future, or does
fate take its course no matter what? Oedipus was a shrewd man furnished
with wit and intellect, yet his lack of insight (the ability to see and
understand clearly the inner nature of himself) and his …
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…solve Tiresias's riddles because his arrogance
wouldn't allow him to, or did he recognize the answers immediately, his
vanity not allowing him to acknowledge the truth?
Notes
1Ingri And Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's , D'aulaires' Book Of Greek Myths
(Garden City:Doubleday & Company Inc. , 1962), 158.
Bibliography
D'aulaire's Partin , Edgar and Ingri. Daulaire's Book Of Greek Myths. Garden City:
Doubleday & Company Inc. , 1962.
Sophocles. Oedipus The King in The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles. (Trans. P. Roche.)
New York: Mentor Books , 1986.
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