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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:play
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Oedipus_the_King
gptkb:Oedipus_Tyrannus
gptkb:Oidipous_Tyrannos
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gptkbp:author
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Sophocles
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gptkbp:conflict
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Oedipus seeks to rid Thebes of plague by discovering the murderer of Laius
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gptkbp:consequence
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Oedipus blinds himself
Jocasta commits suicide
Oedipus is exiled from Thebes
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gptkbp:countryOfOrigin
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gptkb:Athens,_Greece
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gptkbp:dateWritten
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circa 429 BC
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gptkbp:firstPerformed
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gptkb:Athens
circa 429 BC
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Oedipus_at_Colonus
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gptkbp:genre
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tragedy
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Sigmund_Freud's_Oedipus_complex
psychoanalysis
modern literature
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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gptkbp:literaryPeriod
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gptkb:Classical_Greek
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gptkbp:mainCharacter
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gptkb:Oedipus
gptkb:Tiresias
gptkb:Laius
gptkb:Jocasta
gptkb:Creon
Messenger
Shepherd
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gptkbp:notableAdaptation
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gptkb:Oedipus_Rex_(1957_film)
gptkb:Oedipus_Rex_(1967_film)
gptkb:Oedipus_Rex_(opera)_by_Igor_Stravinsky
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gptkbp:numberOfActs
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1
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gptkbp:numberOfScenes
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varies by edition
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gptkbp:originalLanguage
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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gptkbp:partOf
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gptkb:Theban_Plays
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gptkbp:precededBy
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none
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gptkbp:resolution
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Oedipus discovers he has killed his father and married his mother
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:Thebes
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gptkbp:subject
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gptkb:Greek_mythology
gptkb:prophecy
fate
incest
patricide
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gptkbp:theme
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blindness and insight
guilt and innocence
power and kingship
the limits of free will
truth and self-discovery
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Teatro_Olimpico
gptkb:The_Phoenician_Women
gptkb:Pasolini's_1967_film_'Edipo_Re'
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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