Greek tragedy.Besides the well-known argument of Oedipus falling in love with his mother and killing his father (all of this without him knowing it), this tragedy can tell us something else…
With this work Sophocles made the Greeks’ religious thought shake. With the pass of time and with the coming of other men, the gods went back to their cradle: the abyss, the chaos, the night….
Certainly the plots of the gods are terrible. They cannot be changed. If we dance under their whim music, it is easy to understand why we would want to stop believing in those gods.
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