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Abstract
Disability, whether it is physical or mental impairment, has many connotations. Traditionally it has negative implications; however modern outlook with disability is quite supportive, positive and constructive. Traditionally, particularly in literature, it is associated negative values such as ugliness, crookedness, malpractice, sadomasochism, guilt-ridden mind and many more distortions. Ancient myth and literature is archetype to modern literature and culture. We know that disability exist today and it traces back its roots in ancient period. Greek literary writers especially dramatists like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus used images of organs of body sometimes distorted, crooked and deprived and sometimes with hideousness and dreadfulness. Historical implications about the disability can found in Sophoclean trilogy Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone.