Oedipus Rex
The tragedy Aristotle held up as the model; it named the 'Oedipus complex'
- Author
- Sophocles
- Style
- Ancient Greek art: Archaic and Classical — Man as the measure: the ideal nude body, the column orders and proportions set by number
- Century
- 5th century BC
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- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War
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