On Misunderstanding Oedipus

In this article, Dodds actually made a point of the blindness of Oedipus and to unravel the mysteries of his life before he became king. What struck as reasonable is Dodds acknowledgement of Oedipus's greatness. He speaks of his greatness in the inner strength of continuing to find out the truth and not the greatness of his position, a king. Like Dodds said, life is consists of riddles that needs to be solved for all individuals because happiness is an illusion. When a family member dies, we stand at their funeral, yet we try to be happy in order to forget those sorrows and sufferings. It is compelling to me, since Dodds has mentioned about it, that illusions are imaginative thoughts or ideas in the human mind for us to remain alive in the world of existence. We all try to forget unfavorable memories by having something else to distract us, that itself, is an illusion.