Oedipus: The King Who Investigated His Own Catastrophe

Sophocles staged history's strangest detective story: a king who hunts a murderer only to discover the killer is himself. In Kral Oidipus, the sighted ruler attacks blind Teiresias for speaking truth, illustrating the blind spot everyone sees but us. Prometheus signs his punishment in advance, eyes open. Pentheus bans Dionysos and is torn apart by the very ecstasy he suppressed. Aristotle called the audience's experience katharsis: rehearsing catastrophe in someone else's life before paying its price in your own.

You'll learn:

- Why fear-driven flight magnifies what it avoids

- The Prometheus question to ask before any principled stance

- How suppressed impulse returns by breaking down the door