Great Books Ep 70. Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus. From Exile to Ascension.
Even if you have a life of hardship and even if everyone around you abandons you, you could still ascend to greatness in the end.
“But when we had gone apart, after no long time we looked back, and Oedipus we saw- nowhere any more, but the king alone, holding his hand before his face to screen his eyes, as if some dread sight had been seen, and such as none might endure to behold.”
~ ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ by Sophocles (Richard. C. Jebb translation. …
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