Oedipus is for all the tragic hero unaware of his own identity, who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother but is overwhelmed by the discovery of the truth. His story, an ongoing conflict between will and destiny that calls into question the themes of guilt, responsibility, and justice, is much richer and more complex than we remember it: it is the story of a series of "calculated chance," so calculated that in the end one is tempted to say that it cannot be chance alone that determines this man's life. Which is, after all, as Greek tragedy continues to teach us after 2,500 years, that of each of us.
