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Encyclopedia entry: Oedipus
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- The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
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Oedipus (
Oidipous
,
‘swollen-foot’), in Greek myth, the son of
Laius
, king of Thebes. When Amphion and Zethus gained possession of Thebes (see
ANTIOPE
), Laius had taken refuge with
Pelops
, but had carried off his host's son Chrȳsippus. The god Apollo warned him that, as punishment, if he fathered a son that son would kill him. Laius recovered his kingdom after the death of Amphion and Zethus, and married Jocasta (Epicastē in Homer). Accordingly, when a son was born, he was given to a servant to expose on Mount Cithaeron, his feet having been transfixed by a spike. Instead the servant gave him to a shepherd who brought him to Polybus, king of Corinth, and ...
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Article: The Burial at Thebes.(Theater review)
Daily Variety;
June 18, 2008 ;
700+ words
... ... Sophocles' 2,500-year-old drama of Oedipus' daughter Antigone and her defiance of ... contemporary resonance in "The Burial at Thebes." The U.K.'s Nottingham Playhouse ... willful and moral Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in that cursed family. But in this version ...
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