WorkSophocles

Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE) · c. 429 BCE

InferredThe specific character and the detail of blindness as a path to inner vision are definitively Sophoclean. Both author and title inferred from the character name and its narrative context.

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On Her Inner Nature and Genius

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“The man rushes forth and is baffled, but returning home a blinded Oedipus, he finds in his breast the jewels of insight the callow birds of genius.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Her Inner Nature and Genius." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 100.

Inferred The specific character and the detail of blindness as a path to inner vision are definitively Sophoclean. Both author and title inferred from the character name and its narrative context.