Richard Jenkyns & Rosie Wyles Lecture Notes

(these are my notes from the Massolit lectures from Richard Seaford & Rosie Wyles, sorry if they don't make sense)

• Oedipus solves the Sphinx's riddle- at the beginning, he is viewed as a saviour of Thebes
• A character's intention is vital for peripeteia
• The recognition(anagnorosis) & reversal of fate go together perfectly in Oedipus- once Oedipus finds out Laius was his father, the fate is immediately reversed
• Oedipus by Sophocles was not the only version of the…