... drew in audiences numbering in the thousands and each year the first place award was given to the playwright who produced the best plays; an award that Sophocles himself had won twenty-four times while also never placing below second place. Some of Sophocles' greatest plays were the Greek tragedies of The Oedipus Cycle, a trio of stories about how a man named Oedipus's cunning led him to become the king of Thebes, but an unrelenting ... unknowingly killed Laios, the king of Thebes and his long lost father. Oedipus then came across the city of Thebes, a city that had been plagued by the ...

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