INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -"Oedipus Rex” was written by Greek playwright Sophocles, not Greek poet Homer. Homer lived sometime between 900 and 700 BCE in ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oedipus Rex is an opera-oratorio in two acts composed by Stravinsky in 1926–27 after Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus Tyrannus and is scored for a speaker, soloists, male chorus and orchestra. The work belongs to Stravinsky’s neo-classical period and is considered one of his finest works in that style.

Detailed explanation-3: -Homer was the composer of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two oldest and most important works of Greek literature. We know nothing certain about him.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex in the first half of the decade 430–420 bc.