Of all the tragedies, Aristotle distinguished "Oedipus the King." He considered it a model of dramatic art and a masterpiece of plot.

Isn't the plot the unravelling of a thread that overwhelmingly leads the tragic heroes from darkness to light? Isn't it the solution to a riddle?

This unravelling of the thread, which is also the unravelling of a riddle, is observed episode by episode, stanza by stanza, on paths of his own by the author, guiding the reader – whether a literary artist, a theater person, a philologist, or an ordinary mortal – through the secret depths of the work, which paradoxically lead not to an understanding of the actions but to self-awareness.