Tag: Sophocles

Who has one voice and yet becomes three-footed and two-footed and four-footed? Sophocles' Oedipus, the most suffering figure of the Greek tragedy. Oedipus crawled on three as a baby (because his ankles were pinned together by his parents who abandoned him), limped as an adult, and walked on four legs as an old man (blinding… Continue reading On Ignorance →