An alternate version of the events of this play is depicted in the Lille Stesichorus, whose most complete fragment is a “Queen’s speech” that occurs after the events of this play. This play never describes a “cryptic song” that causes a group of people to “put aside something we found obscure,” and which a character later describes as overcoming with “wits” instead of “birds.” The “irrationality” of this play is argued to be “outside” the tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics, which uses this play to explain the structure and superiority of tragedies. In this play, the prophet Tiresias returns an insult by declaring “you have your eyesight, (10[1])and you do not see” (10[1])foreshadowing the protagonist’s (10[1])loss of sight. For 10 points, (10[1])name this play by Sophocles whose title character discovers he did not escape his fate of marrying his mother and murdering his father. ■END■