How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in…

Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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