“…You mock my blindness, do you? / But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind :”( Sophocles, 400-401) Such a powerful yet contradicting quote. One might read this and ask themselves, “How can a man with two eyes be blind?” The answer to this question of sight is seen, metaphorica...

Nobody would envy the situation Oedipus finds himself in at the end of Sophocles’ playwright ‘King Oedipus’, a situation that he in part brought down on himself through his unflinching efforts to uncover the answers of the past. Once proclaiming to Thebes that he would find Laius’ killer he ...