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The Oedipus story survives, the paper said, "because it embodies the deep human sense that free will is a fragile thing, and no inheritance, however noble, frees one from the mark of sin.
Hercules, after all, is not a tragic hero like Oedipus or Prometheus."
The Sphinx may be silent, as in many traditions, or not, but she and Oedipus, who did not recognize parents of either gender, probably do not understand the same language.
The hypothetical modern Oedipus might join some humans of both genders who carp at the most radical-seeming alterations of the language.
Poet Muriel Rukeyser envisions Oedipus “old and blinded” asking the Sphinx why he hadn't recognized his own mother.