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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:play
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Oedipus_Rex
gptkb:Oedipus_Tyrannus
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gptkbp:author
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Sophocles
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gptkbp:award
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Second prize at City Dionysia
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gptkbp:basedOn
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gptkb:Greek_mythology
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gptkbp:countryOfOrigin
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gptkb:Greece
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gptkbp:firstPerformed
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circa 429 BC
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Antigone
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 the King
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Freud's_Oedipus_complex
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gptkbp:literaryPeriod
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gptkb:Classical_Athens
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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:Jean_Cocteau's_The_Infernal_Machine
gptkb:Pasolini's_Edipo_Re
gptkb:Stravinsky's_Oedipus_Rex
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gptkbp:notableQuote
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"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."
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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:performedAt
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gptkb:Theatre_of_Dionysus
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:Thebes
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gptkbp:subject
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gptkb:plague
gptkb:prophecy
incest
patricide
self-blinding
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gptkbp:theme
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fate
free will
blindness
truth
guilt
self-discovery
tragic flaw
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gptkbp:translatedInto
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gptkb:David_Grene
gptkb:Robert_Fagles
gptkb:Sir_Richard_Jebb
gptkb:E._H._Plumptre
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Oedipus_Rex
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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