Contemporary Analysis of Ethics, Virtue, and Moral Dilemmas in Greek PlaysGreek works including "Antigone", "Oedipus Rex" and "Blibation Bearers" (Orestia) are generally viewed and praised as works of beautiful literature, written by renounced playwrights in the fifth century. The works themselves are rich in hamartia, catharsis, irony and enriched compositional faculties. Despite its great literary value, Greek works possess a unique and different dimension that is often not highlighted. The plays have generous meaning in terms of justice, ethics and morality. These comedies are articulated on these aspects by questioning the readers in the form of moral dilemmas installed in the platies. These plays pose highly perplexing questions that still intrigue and spark debate even with our advanced contemporary political justice and more consolidated sense of ethics and morality. Moral dilemmas that we, as individuals, are left to ponder and are forced to evaluate our virtues against laws, social norms and justice. Thus, not only did the Greek playwrights deliver tantalizing theatrical masterpieces, in hindsight, they also raised in all of us morally conflicting questions that emerged alongside their development of democracy. Likewise, life in democratic societies is filled with countless political disputes about right and wrong, justice and injustice, all of which are explicitly manifested in the plays "Antigone", "Oedipus Rex" and "Birthbearers". This essay will introduce a moral dilemma from each of the three plays and contemplate the justice of each circumstance. Furthermore, this essay does not aspire to present "absolute" justice to all these moral dilemmas, and to provide jurisdiction, however, inst... middle of paper...s of incest? Can ignorance of one's actions be the basis of one's innocence? In our democratic societies, full of vices and disputes about justice, cases similar to those in our plays may have already occurred. Perhaps someone has already committed matricide under external pressure (a gun pointed at the head or a loved one), perhaps he has violated the fence of the law, to achieve goodness (he turned on the red light to get to his dying person). mother) or perhaps someone had unknowingly committed incest with the mother separated at birth. With all these morally perplexing questions, how then can we reason about the contested terrain of justice and injustice, fairness and injustice? As the Greek works have provided us, we are faced with a difficult moral dilemma. To begin with an opinion, or a belief about justice, just as the Greek playwrights did.