There is fertile fodder for writing in the ancients. Today so many theater artists are revisiting the gods and mortals of ancient Greece and Rome, such as Phaedra, Oedipus, Apollo and Phaethon, Orpheus and Eurydice. And our editor is no exception as her theme in her first E-Novel Series, "The Oedipus Syndrome", deals with the age-old syndrome that Oedipus suffered from. Visit link: http://www.pathguy.com/oedipus.htm

And who was Oedipus? Oedipus, in Greek mythology, was the king of Thebes, the son of the King and queen of Thebes, Laius and Jocasta. Sophocles, the Greek playwright, who is called the father of drama, closely explores Oedipus as an example of a man embattled by his own truth. Visit link: http://www.human-nature.com/free-associations/emm.html

I think here is where we should revisit the Greek concept of "drama" and "playwright".
Visit links:
http://nisus.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/GreeksMultimediaProject/Oedipus/Oedipus_Brief_Summary.html

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sophocles.htm

In Athens, playwrights were not only dramatists like Aeschylus or Euripides, they were talented directors and accomplished musicians, too. "Playwright" is a down-to-earth word. Cartwrights build carts and playwrights build constructing, redesigning and inventing plays from all kinds of material. I say this not to diminish the playwright as a solitary creator of literature, but because we are seeing so many playwrights build new works from a common source of history, myth and tradition. It is as if they, and we, their audience, are on a scavenger hunt through the past. We are looking for treasure in the form of cultural continuity; old griefs and pleasures felt again and more clearly; revelations about who we are and whether we can, or cannot, change.