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“There is no man blessed amongst us. All the works of man are known and every soul is tried,” sings the chorus at the beginning of Oedipus Rex. After answering the riddle of man, Oedipus becomes the foremost of living men and takes his turn on the top of the ....

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.... He tells of the plague not leaving until the murderer is found. Tiresias, being a great prophet, knows all but will not tell: “I will speak no further. Rage if you have a mind to.” Only after Oedipus persists does the prophet say Oedipus is the murderer: “I say that you are the murderer that you seek.” Tiresias further states that Oedipus is married to his mother: “You are living with your next of kin in unimagined shame.” Oedipus, unwilling to turn the mirror on himself, resorts to insulting Tiresias: “Was it Creon that planned this or you yourself...the riddle about man is about himself.” A man's fate is his character; at this m ....