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Oedipus Rex, a play by Sophocles first performed in Athens around 429 B.C., concerns the tragic downfall of Oedipus, king of Thebes. Unaware that he has killed his father and married his mother, Oedipus is plagued by a series of misfortunes that force him to leave his home and wander the earth as an outcast. When the truth is revealed, Oedipus blinds himself in despair. The Oedipus Rex play is considered one of the greatest works of classical literature. It is studied in literature classes at many universities. The story has been adapted for film and stage countless times over the last 2,400 years—most notably in a production by famed German director Werner Herzog. The plot has also been referenced many times in modern psychological theory and practice as a metaphor for Freudian concepts like the Oedipal Complex (a boy’s desire to have sexual relations with his mother). As with most great works of art produced during the so-called Western Canon period (roughly 500 BC-1500 AD), Oedipus Rex is part of what many scholars consider to be a canon—or body—of essential reading texts that every educated person should study at some point in their lifetime.