Sophocles\' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece.
Now, modern readers can compare the tw.
Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles\' play was first performed, Seneca composed a fine, but neglected and often disparaged Latin tragedy on the same subject, which, in some ways, comes closer to our common understanding of the Oedipus myth.
It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus\' quest to discover his identity.
Sophocles\' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece