In Sophocles' play 'Oedipus', the protagonist Oedipus moves from knowing facts about himself (such as the prophecy that he would kill Laius) to realizing that he himself is the subject of those facts, which serves as an example of self-consciousness.

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  Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• self-consciousness concept