Oedipus (Euripides)  

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Oedipus is a play by the 5th-century BCE Athenian dramatist Euripides. The play is now lost except for some fragments. The plot of the play covers similar ground as Sophocles' famous Oedipus the King but from the fragments we know that there were some significant and perhaps surprising differences. In particular, one fragment makes it clear that unlike in Oedipus the King, where Oedipus blinds himself upon learning his true parentage, and that he had accidentally killed his father and married his mother, in Euripides' play Oedipus is blinded by a servant of his father Laius, who was also Oedipus' predecessor as king of Thebes. Further, this fragment implies that Oedipus was blinded before it was known that Laius was his father. Other fragments suggest that, while in Sophocles' play Oedipus' wife and mother Jocasta kills herself, in Euripides' play Jocasta survives and accompanies Oedipus into exile.



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