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Professor Ayan Gangopadhyay
January 27th 2016
Week Two Journal Entry
January 27th, today we began reading the classical Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. This story really has an interesting plot; it unfolds as Oedipus becomes king of Thebes, a king whose hubris and hamartia makes him more ignorant and blind to the truth about his fate the gods had sealed for him. In this pagan and ancient tragedy, the city of Thebes is besieged with a plague, king Oedipus whose entire life is shrouded by darkness seeks the path of light and truth to purge the city he once redeemed from the singing sphinx.
This story sheds light on ancient Greek paganism and polytheism as the people of Thebes showed their belief,