00058 - New York versus Tragedy and Oedipus. The legacy of Sophocles and the Sophists in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors

00058 - New York versus Tragedy and Oedipus. The legacy of Sophocles and the Sophists in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Key words: Woody Allen, Greek tragedy, classical tradition, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Oedipus, cinema

Can we read the screenplay of Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen only relating it –from the perspective of the classical tradition- to the character of Oedipus and the Greek tragedy? The aim of this article is to pay attention to its probable connection with the theories of great Sophistic philosophers such as Protagoras, Critias and Antiphon.