Speech : between muthos and logos in Oedipus the King by Sophocles
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https://doi.org/10.55595/rpgfqw62Keywords:
Word, Muthos, Logos, Rationality, TragedieAbstract
This article examines the tragic play Oedipus the King with a view to highlighting the
opposition between two forms of verb: divinatory speech which has a supernatural and religious
character and intellectual speech. Which intellectual speech is characterized by logos, that is to say
rationality: giving tangible explanations to things that seem mysterious. We can thus notice that
several characters embody this divide between prophetic discourse and “scientific” or rational
discourse. On the one hand we have Oedipus who thinks he can understand the origin of the
plague which strikes Thebes; on the other we have the soothsayer Tiresias whose words are
inspired by the Olympian gods. Several other characters in the play can be studied to show that
tragic speech in Sophocles bears the stamp of muthos and logos in Oedipus the King. The
approach we have chosen is that of discourse analysis. This will help us understand and compare
the different statements to see which ones fall within the framework of muthos, and which ones are
linked to logos. We will also draw inspiration from mythocriticism since the play we are studying
contains many mythical references which must be worth analyzing
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