Greeks had two types of plays comedy and tragedy

One of the more famous plays are Oedipus rex, who is the king who had a sage tell him that he was going to marry his own mother and that you’re going to murder your own father. So than he goes to wander. And gets in to an accident and kills the man and the man is his father. So than he meets an older woman and marries her. Later to released that he married his mother. So to become king he takes daggers and plunges his own eyes to blind himself so that no one can look at him.