May Books 9) Οιδίπους Τύραννος / Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles

[nwhyte]

I was reviewing the Norwegian list of the best 100 books recently, and realised that I could get some of them from BookMooch; this was the first to arrive, from Singapore

Comments

[swisstone]

I'll warn you - I have seen more bad OTs than I have seen of any other Greek tragedy - but this may be because it's performed more often than the others. It's treated as the one to turn to just to show that you can do it.

[cassiphone]

I always say that Oedipus Rex is the first murder mystery - it uses so many elements of the classic detective novel!