It is like how J.R.R. Tolkien and his heir Christopher Tolkien Said The Silmarillion Should be read first. The hobbit second and the lord of the rings as the last piece. But even though the silmarillion was written first it was published last, and the hobbit came out first.

I read them in the order they were published in.

I was introduced to the hobbit as a child, read rings as a teenager and later i read the silmarillion.

Just like i started the Narnia series with The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. I care less for the chronological method as it seems quite an unnatural way to read the books if they were not published in that order.

Whenever i watch the star wars films i always watch the originals first, Then the prequels if i even get a desire to see them again which i don't.

Oedipus on the other hand i only read the first play Rex or "the king" is the best out of all three of the theban plays. Sophocles was not the originator of the story.

His version is the only one we have a complete copy of and the earlier work by an unnamed greek poet is only fragmentary.

But the historians and mythologists did enough research to establish Oedipus sleeping with His mother originates with Sophocles and is not in the original version.

Supposedly according to one scholar the anachronistic view started by Freud was not held by the ancient greeks. Oedipus sleeping with his mother was not the key movement and shock of the story. It was the murder of his own father that the ancients greeks found to be an unpardenable crime.