Epic similes are detailed comparisons over many lines of text. What is the comparison being made in this epic simile from The Odyssey" its crackling roots blazed and kissed a blacksmith pluges a glowing or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens - that's the iron's strength-so the of Cyclops sizzled round that stake." 2 sentence answer

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The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.