COM 415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus
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Read his playright to alexander the great. Recited his poem for a festival for apollo, and in revenge, callimachus had the poem rejected by the judges. Only one person remained after the play, plato. Aristotle was the last one listening to plato"s poem. Read his play to the king that was so brilliant he won the verdict against his sons. Married his mother (by accident) and killed his father but he didn"t know they were his parents. Antigone, oedipus rex (read to the king), and oedipus at colonus. Ignored by judges of the greek festivals because he did not carter to the fancies of the athenian crowd. He didn"t approve of their superstitions and refused to condone their moral hypocrisy. He was a pacifist, a humanitarian, and a free thinker with humid terror. Eventually lived alone in a cave on the island of solymos.
