Ancient Greek Attitudes towards Force and Power

Introduction

Oedipus Rex Sophocles able to perform to achieve several objectives in his play, Oedipus Rex. Sophocles brilliantly retells the classic Greek tale while also describing the characters and their motives in detail. Of the symbols of Sophocles naturally spends much time describing the game's hero, Oedipus. Sophocles Oedipus sends ideals, morality, and views on several topics throughout the game. Among the most important and famous of his convictions, which showed discusses the importance of the Oedipus reasoning, intelligence, and inquiry.

Discussion

Sophocles portrayed Oedipus as an amiable nature that Greek audiences could empathize with and perhaps even to associate with. The audience saw a respectable figure, which seemed not to commit any flagrant evil, to come to his destruction. They saw an absolute tragedy. Sophocles assured that the audience will consider Oedipus as a respectable and believable character, giving Edip many popular sense of time. These ideals have been caused by a philosophy that was flourishing in Greece during the life of Sophocles. Most of the concepts of Oedipus, can be traced to either the dialectic of Socrates is, who has appeared in several works of Plato, Aristotle, or a student of Plato. These concepts have been distributed all over Greece during the period that Oedipus was thought to be presented, which makes them common knowledge to the audience time (Friedlander 7).

Of all the virtues that the Greeks, especially Athenians valued was the wisdom, the wisdom of dealing with everything in life (Friedlander 8). Socrates rejected the Greek movement for the wisdom, when he not only proclaimed that the wisdom of the one true power, from which all other virtues originated, but he also launched the infamous quote, "unexamined life is not worth living." ("Apology" 203). Socrates in all Plato's dialogues, the value of wisdom in ...