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…visions of their predicament, in the classical way that Creon of Sophocles' Antigone does, or in the way Othello and Macbeth do. Orthodox and recognizable tragedy necessarily involves a process of learning and exorcism, which is manipulated by the tragic figure…

…, and for that reason the two can illuminate each other. Freud, for example, was greatly in debt to Sophocles and the tradition of myths that nourished the drama of Oedipus; he was helped to grasp the universal dimension of the phenomena he was coming across in his own…

…of the concept to ancient Greece and Rome, where it was closely tied to the doctrines of the Stoics, who held that human conduct should be judged according to, and brought into harmony with, the law of nature. A classic example of this view is given in Sophocles' play…

…; the thing was past patience, wealth of all kinds being wasted on objects like these. The whole of Asia was like the city in Sophocles, loaded, at one time- "---------with incense in the air, Jubilant songs, and outcries of despair." When he made his…