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Posted by JUNKYARD5.0 (Member # 10398) on :
 
Who here has read this play? Fuck I hadn't read it in years and just finished reading and it's damn crazy. What are your thought on this play and other Sophocles plays.

I mean I know they are all tragedies but a little deeper than that.

Then there's Oedipus complex which is some whole other crazy shit.
 
Posted by Stang66 (Member # 10504) on :
 
great twisted play.. lol
its crazy how he guages out his eyes once he finds out that he killed his own father and married his mother, maximum incest [Eek!]
 
Posted by wilit (Member # 3367) on :
 
Never read it. I'm a slow reader, so I listen to audiobooks. There's a website called librivox.org that has free downloads of public domain books. I added Oedipus to my phone to listen to.
 
Posted by JUNKYARD5.0 (Member # 10398) on :
 
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Originally posted by wilit:
Never read it. I'm a slow reader, so I listen to audiobooks. There's a website called librivox.org that has free downloads of public domain books. I added Oedipus to my phone to listen to.
It's a real good play, it is so twisted.
 
Posted by wilit (Member # 3367) on :
 
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Originally posted by JUNKYARD5.0:
quote:
Originally posted by wilit:
Never read it. I'm a slow reader, so I listen to audiobooks. There's a website called librivox.org that has free downloads of public domain books. I added Oedipus to my phone to listen to.
It's a real good play, it is so twisted.
I read Antigone which is the last play in the series and I remember that being good. I'm going to listen to all three in order.
 
Posted by gray03gt (Member # 6427) on :
 
Probably the last thing expected on CA fords. Greek/Roman history is pretty interesting. There's so many practices that originated then, that are still used today. The formation of Greece as a great culture was pretty much due to the threat of the Persian Empire. A group of western thinking cities banded together to go against the barbarians or non western thinkers. Look at the UN today and the primary enemy against our way of western thinking. Athens was considered the world police(in the Mediterranean) and the head of the Delian league, much like the US is the world police today and the greatest power in the UN,etc.
 
Posted by JUNKYARD5.0 (Member # 10398) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by gray03gt:
Probably the last thing expected on CA fords. Greek/Roman history is pretty interesting. There's so many practices that originated then, that are still used today. The formation of Greece as a great culture was pretty much due to the threat of the Persian Empire. A group of western thinking cities banded together to go against the barbarians or non western thinkers. Look at the UN today and the primary enemy against our way of western thinking. Athens was considered the world police(in the Mediterranean) and the head of the Delian league, much like the US is the world police today and the greatest power in the UN,etc.
Yes, definately. Greek's and Romans used to play this play for their whole audience so that they can learn the lessons made by Oedipus, Creon on Antigone and etc. Basically to teach the youth not to make the same mistakes and all. I remember one phrase from a I think the leader of the churus and he say's something like "....we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future" so basically at this point in the play the leader would step put and look straight at the youth in the audence who sat in front, to make sure they learn a lesson.
 
Posted by phil a (Member # 6951) on :
 
It was all just fun and games (take that for what it's worth) until Freud started preaching the the Oedipus complex is pretty much universal. Jung came out with the Electra complex pretty much mirroring the Oedipus. Weird stuff. Try not to think about it. lol
 
Posted by JUNKYARD5.0 (Member # 10398) on :
 
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Originally posted by phil a:
It was all just fun and games (take that for what it's worth) until Freud started preaching the the Oedipus complex is pretty much universal. Jung came out with the Electra complex pretty much mirroring the Oedipus. Weird stuff. Try not to think about it. lol
Yea but it kinda sucks because many people credit Freud for the electra complex instead of Jung.
 




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