Even though Oedipus the King didn't detail all of Oedipus' adventures, I thought it
             was a good book. I think it was smart of Sophocles to pick out the most
             significant, life altering phase in Oedipus' life to bring to the stage. I also really
             respect how Sophocles took the myth of Oedipus and put all of the details of the
             story into it. I think it's somewhat amazing how he took something that
             supposedly happened and gave the people exact dialogue and specific feelings. I
             realize that Oedipus the King is only a myth and that all Sophocles needed was a
             creative mind, but I still respect him.
             Being as Oedipus the King's storyline was already laid out, I can't blame
             Sophocles for some of the events I didn't agree with or ridiculed. First of all, I
             know I shouldn't laugh at this myth because the ancient Greeks actually believed
             it, but I did. The Sphinx was a monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the
             body of a lion, and the wings of a bird. I just think it's absurd that someone would
             actually make up a story with something like the Sphinx in it. It sounds like
             something out of a science fiction story, and I just don't like science fiction. Next,
             why did Oedipus gouge his eyes out? I understand why Oedipus would do
             something so drastic in the instant he learned the foul deeds he committed, but I
             thought he would've killed himself as Jocasta did. That is, until I realized in a
             way he wanted to suffer because he believed he deserved it. Honestly, I feel bad
             Finally, there was one part of Oedipus the King that I didn't like and can
             blame on Sophocles. That was the part where the chorus seems to go on and on
             about the gods and how Apollo and Zeus should save them. They chanted on
             about how they would never go to Delphi or another temple if Oedipus' story
             wouldn't come true. I did not like reading that par...