Aristotle was nothing short of a Greek Renaissance man. He knew many different aspects of the sciences for a man of his day. This knowledge of the scientific w

In Odeipus Rex Odeipus has a simple motive. Unlike other plays his 'praxis' is very easy to find and fathom for all those who would seek. His unwavering goal is to find and dispense justice to the killer of the former king. This is the 'action' that keeps the play moving and dictates the actions that Odeipus will take. In turn his character of a single-minded king almost paradoxically translates the actions he takes to resolve his motive.

Odeipus Rex is a very deep play. Whether he was conscious of it or not Sophocles created a fine tapestry with the whole of the play. He did so by masterfully using many of the different aspects and machinations that Aristotle considered the hallmarks of tragedy. Through these aspects of epic drama Odeipus Rex is worthy of its place in Aristotle's crumbled mind.

orld translated into his love of 'epic' drama. So when he set out to define what a tragedy's quantitative parts were he used very boring and technical terms. Instead of whim or personal reasons internal forces not unlike gravity or inertia were now supposed to govern a character. The aforementioned Odeipus Rex was and is a good example of tragedy. When the 'laws' of tragedy were created, Aristotle probably modeled most of them on the aspects contained within Sophicles'es greatest play. Thus words like praxis, poiesis, and theoria entered the 'modern' English (class) language.

The beauty of this play is that when the praxis finds its e

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