His best-known work is Oedipus Rex, the play that later gave its name to the Freudian theory, in which the hero kills his father and marries his mother - in a doomed attempt to escape the curse he brings upon himself.

• 他最著名的作品就是《奥狄浦斯王》，后来的弗洛伊德理论借用了这一名字，在这部戏中，主人公无望地试图逃避他自己带给自己的诅咒，但最终还是杀父娶母。