The Tragic Tale of Oedipus

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Leo Tolstoy once famously wrote that "All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ______."

way

Ancient Greek playwrights really specialized in the ______ family.

dysfunctional

They had plays about wives killing ______, parents killing children, children killing parents, siblings killing each other, and they also wrote tragedies.

husbands

But it's hard to imagine a more ______, dysfunctional family than the Theban clan that Sophocles writes about in Oedipus the King.

<p>tragic</p> Signup and view all the answers

Right now, to you, the only Kardashian you know is OJ Simpson's defense ______.

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