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Oedipus is Jiang's example of tragedy as fate rather than simple moral guilt: in Sophocles, Jiang says Oedipus did nothing wrong, yet fate and accident still destroy him.
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Sophocles
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Jiang characterizes Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as poets who were first and foremost prophets or teachers of democracy.
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Jiang introduces Sophocles through the Oedipus trilogy and narrates Oedipus as a man whose attempt to escape prophecy helps fulfill it.
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Jiang reads the tragedy of Creon as an anti-king message: kings do stupid things because power produces hubris, arrogance, and bad judgment.
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Jiang says the three tragedians' works remain powerful because the Oresteia, Oedipus Rex, and the Bacchae are still performed around the world.
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"you a much better person does it make sense guys all right even crime is this arm of habits horror and all its contagion..."
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"...into exile okay and if you actually read the tragedy by Sophocles he did nothing wrong it was it was just fate it was..."
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"...three most famous playwrights in Athens at that time were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, okay? And these were really playwrights, poets, but they were..."
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"So to win first place at the Festival of Dionysus is like winning the Nobel Prize in physics today, okay? So what I will..."
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"...so far about this? All right? Okay. Let's move on to Sophocles, okay? So, Sophocles wrote many plays. His most famous is the Oedipus..."
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"And the soldier takes the baby, and again, it's just a baby, like, you know, maybe a few days, a few weeks old. He..."
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"When he is of age, he goes and talks to a fortune teller. And the fortune teller tells him, I am sorry, but you..."
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"So Oedipus volunteers to challenge the Sphinx to a duel. And the Sphinx asks Oedipus a riddle. If Oedipus can get it right, the..."
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"talks to a fortune teller, and the fortune teller tells him, well, the gods are angry at you because you've killed your father, and..."
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"The moment that Haman sees his father, he becomes so angry, he lunges at him with his sword. Okay? But he misses. And when..."
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"Violent, excessive arrogance. And that makes them do stupid things. Like, listen, like, refuse to listen to what is right and good and just...."
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"...how we can be better. OK? And again, these three, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are considered the three greatest playwrights in Athenian history. And..."
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