The moral of Sophocles' play Oedipus was
a. that although one cannot avoid the fate of the gods, one's own actions bear personal responsibility.
b. adhering to a "higher law" to bury her brother meant that Antigone had to break Athenian law.
c. evil acts breed evil deeds, and Orestes was not wrong to avenge his father.
d. women should be granted more legal rights and status, or Medea would not have harmed her children.
e. that Lysistrata could organize women and show the foolishness of war.
a
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