Ancient Greek Theatre Comprehension Test: Oedipus Rex

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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// Time for some Guess and Check // Given the film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival Version of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the goal was to try and understand the story of the play as completely as possible according to the following rules: - I was only allowed to watch the full play one time. - During that one time, I was only allowed to hit pause two times, but was allowed to use those two pauses whenever. - I was not allowed to rewin...

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0:00.0	And Ladies and the
0:13.0	it's
0:14.0	the
0:15.0	the
0:16.0	the
0:18.0	...
0:20.0	...
0:21.0	...
0:22.0	... Gentlemen, welcome to Oral Presentations Podcast. This is episode 81, and it's called
0:25.6	Ancient Greek Theater Comprehension Test, Ettipus Rex.
0:30.0	What's up? How you doing? We're going to cover the story of Ettipus Rex, which is an old ancient Greek play.
0:37.0	I had known it by name and if you know anything about it, I mean I think the one popular rumor about this plays that the guy has a bunch of sex with his mom.
0:47.0	That's really all I knew about it.
0:49.0	I know I want to do the story because I've heard it referenced so much and that's the only thing I knew about it is just a lot of mom sex
0:57.8	And honestly that's why I really didn't want to look into it more than that because it was like how much more
1:03.8	salacious can it get I mean I feel like I know the high point or low point
1:08.1	depending on how you look at it I mean I know the most interesting thing
1:12.3	about it I feel like but they do this in high school
1:16.0	I don't know the actual story of it and it was another thing that like I called myself
1:22.2	being like yeah I already know everything about it.
1:23.8	No you don't dude. All I knew was that the guy has sex with his mom at some point.
1:27.1	That's all I really know and it's supposed to be one of the great plays of all time.
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