Oedipus Without the Complex: Myth, Structure and Ethics

what ethical implication (more than "don't sleep with your mom or kill your dad")  can we learn from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus? We will bridge Sophocles' Theban Plays with heated debates over the ethical issue of "recognition" in the works of Aristotle and Hegel.

Suggested Readings:
Theban Plays
Aristotle, Poetics
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Philosophical Perspectives
Oedipus: Myth and Complex, A Review of Psychoanalytic Theory

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