295: ROMAN ROAD RAGE
Actually, the earliest episode is Greek, in Sophocles’s Oedipus the King. As Œdipus tells it (vv800-14) to his wife, this is how it went:
When I came to the place where three roads meet, I met a herald followed by a horse-drawn carriage with a man inside. The leader rudely told me to get out of their way, and his lord and master arrogantly said the same. The driver pushed me aside. I struck him in a temper. Sticking his head from the carriage, the old man saw this, seized the driver’s two-pronged goad and cracked my
