Oedipus at Colonus

Girard's answer is that Christianity is different from all of those pagan stories like Oedipus in one key detail, which is that it's told from the perspective of the victim and not the persecutor.

When you read Oedipus at Colonus, or Oedipus Rex, the Theban trilogy, when you read about Oedipus, it's told from the perspective of Thebes.

It's saying, we had this ruler, he did this messed up stuff, we exiled him, and now we're saved.

And that preserves the myth.

She retired, and they gave me a nice classroom, and unfortunately, it was in the education building.

So I was lecturing about, um, Sophocles' Ajax and the hero Ajax and what early Soph-Sophocles in grammar and syntax were like compared to later, one of his later plays, like the Oedipus at Colonus.

Anyway, we hear this noise, and I can't repeat it.

It was the N-word, uh, despic- white trash, Okie, gringo, uh, and then the F word.

'Cause we see at the Oresteia, uh, you know, that, that definition kinda still holds.

The other one I'm thinking about is that at the end of the Theban plays with Oedipus at Colonus, if you remember when Oedipus is gonna be brought into Athens as a citizen of Athens, one of the standards that he has to adhere to is he has to hate what Athens hates, and he has to love what Athens loves.

So to become a just citizen, you have to adopt the justice, uh, of the polis.

Yeah, and the Furies do the same at the end of the, the Oresteia.

The, the...

When you have...

Talking about having some sort of moral duty to adopt, for example, in the case of the, the, say, Oedipus at Colonus, where it's like we're...

Well, if you're going to be a part of this polis, then you too should, need to love what the, what the polis loves and hate what the polis hates.

So the final attempt I wanted to look at was by Friedrich Beiser, who we heard from earlier, and who is the author of Weltschmerz.

When describing how the German pessimists in the mid to late 1800s understood pessimism- He wrote the following, "Pessimism is the thesis that life is not worth living, that nothingness is better than being, or that it is worse to be than not to be." And he cites a passage from Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus as the perfect expression of pessimism, and it goes as follows, "Never to be born is by far the best.

But if you are alive, the best is to return quickly from where you came." This idea that it's better never to come into existence really seems like a core component of pessimism, 'cause we've heard it multiple times now.

And if I'm honest, if any view was to form the core of pessimism and to really undergird it, I think it'd be this one.

Wail no more, let sorrow rest, All is ordered for the best.

End of Part 2 End of Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles Translated by Francis Storr

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