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    <body><![CDATA[This is the least significant of Sophocles' Oedipus cycle.  What I found most interesting was the focus on a golden-age Athens, as Sophocles was writing while Athens was threatened by almost irreversable destruction.  I found it artistically irrelevant to Oedipus Rex and Antigone, but historically i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36158648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first time I've read this which is ridiculous when I've studied Rex and Antigone twice each over four different classes. Suddenly Antigone makes sense!<br/><br/>Anyway, I love the rhythm of the language, and Theseus is a bit of all right. ]]></body>
    
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