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Born	c.496 BCE • ancient Greece
Died	406 BCE • Athens • ancient Greece
Notable Works	“Ajax” • “Antigone” • “Electra” • “Oedipus Rex” • “Oedipus at Colonus” • “Philoctetes” • “Trachinian Women” • “Trackers”

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Jean Mounet-Sully as Oedipus

Hear Oedipus question a shepherd who affirms the prophecy is fulfilled in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex

Watch the exchange between self-blinded Oedipus and Creon in Sophocles' Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex

Listen to the chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King decrying human disregard of the gods

Watch self-blinded Oedipus confer with chorus leader about fulfillment of Apollo's prophecy in Oedipus Rex

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