Sainte-Beuve deemed Athalie comparable to an Athenian tragedy by who?
Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA: [oidípuːs týranːos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply "Oedipus" ("Οἰδίπους"), as it is referred to by Aristotle in the "Poetics". It is thought to have been renamed "Oedipus Tyrannus" to distinguish it from "Oedipus at Colonus". In antiquity, the term “tyrant” referred to a ruler, but it did not necessarily have a negative connotation.
Telecleides Telecleides (Ancient Greek: Τηλεκλείδης ) was an Athenian Old Comic poet, and dates to the 440s and 430s BCE. Only six titles and a few fragments of his plays survive. One of his plays was "The Amphictyons", in which Telecleides presented a Golden Age of impossibly effortless plenty. His other known plays are "Apseudeis", "Eumenides", "Hesiodoi", "Prytanes", and "Sterrhoi".