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Oedipus Rex is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as Oedipus, King of Thebes). It tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall.

Enter the world of ancient Greece with The Gilbert Murray Library, a complete spoken collection of the works of one of the great interpreters of Greek literature, religion, and tragedy.Here are gods and heroes, poets and philosophers, rituals half-hidden by time, and the enduring questions that haunted the Greek imagination: what makes a civilization humane, why men go to war, how suffering may be understood, and what remains when old beliefs begin to fail.Murray wrote not as an antiquarian, but as one convinced that the Greeks still had something urgent to say to the modern world. These ...

A historical account written in the early 20th century The work explores the evolution and various phases of Greek religion focusing on the transition from primitive beliefs to the more structured Olympian pantheon and beyond Murray delves into the connections between ancient Greek religious practices and the broader themes of death rebirth and the cyclical nature of life suggesting that many elements of Greek spirituality have influenced later religious traditions particularly Christianity - Summary by Project Gutenberg

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