Abstract

FRANCISCATO, Maria Cristina Rodrigues da Silva. Chance, fate and character in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2019, vol.41, n.67-68, pp.15-23. ISSN 0101-3106.

Oedipus' fate, protagonist of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, was traced before his birth: he would kill his father and would marry his mother. This oracle is mentioned twice in the play. However, the main events of Sophocles' play were not part of the prophecy: the revelation of truth, Jocasta's suicide, and Oedipus's blindness. The question investigated in this article is whether what happens to Oedipus is only the consequence of a transcendent fate or is also the product of his êthos, his character. What in fact Oedipus is, beyond what he believed to be, is revealed by a series of alleged accidents (týkhai).

Keywords : Týkhe; Character; Fate; Oedipus; Sophocles.

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