Oedipus the King

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Oedipus_the_King

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:play
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Oedipus_Rex gptkb:Oedipus_Tyrannus
gptkbp:author	Sophocles
gptkbp:award	Second prize at City Dionysia
gptkbp:basedOn	gptkb:Greek_mythology
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin	gptkb:Greece
gptkbp:firstPerformed	circa 429 BC
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Antigone gptkb:Oedipus_at_Colonus
gptkbp:genre	gptkb:tragedy
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Freud's_Oedipus_complex
gptkbp:literaryPeriod	gptkb:Classical_Athens
gptkbp:mainCharacter	gptkb:Oedipus gptkb:Tiresias gptkb:Laius gptkb:Jocasta gptkb:Creon Messenger Shepherd
gptkbp:notableAdaptation	gptkb:Jean_Cocteau's_The_Infernal_Machine gptkb:Pasolini's_Edipo_Re gptkb:Stravinsky's_Oedipus_Rex
gptkbp:notableQuote	"I must bring what is dark to light." "You are the curse, the corruption of the land!" "Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last."
gptkbp:originalLanguage	gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Theban_Plays
gptkbp:performedAt	gptkb:Theatre_of_Dionysus
gptkbp:setting	gptkb:Thebes
gptkbp:subject	gptkb:plague gptkb:prophecy incest patricide self-blinding
gptkbp:theme	fate free will blindness truth guilt self-discovery tragic flaw
gptkbp:translatedInto	gptkb:David_Grene gptkb:Robert_Fagles gptkb:Sir_Richard_Jebb gptkb:E._H._Plumptre
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Oedipus_Rex
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Oedipus the King