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  Amazon.com: Labdacids: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Though I seek to avenge the curious death Of the Labdacid king.
Labdacids or the son of Polybus neither before nor now have...
Vernant 1988 brilliantly compares the legendary kings of Thebes, the Labdacids, the family of Oedipus,...
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Antigone Study Guide
An understanding of Antigone's family and her father's fate helps to put the events of the play in context.
Antigone is of the Labdacids, a great but star-crossed family.
Oedipus was born of Laius and Jocasta, the rulers of Thebes, but his parents were warned in prophecy that the boy would grow up to murder his father and marry his mother.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.12.22
Antigone herself, although intemperate and head-strong, is not mad.
The gods, to be sure, play a role in the destruction of the Labdacids (see esp. the often cited 622-5), but they do not effect this destruction through madness.
The story of Lycurgus told by the chorus (955-65) is filled with madness but the connection of this tale to the drama is oblique and indeterminate.
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 The retreat from omnipotence in Sophokles' Antigone ยป
Was it the attack on Thebes by Polyneikes and the Argives, the deaths of his nephews and his assumption of authority?
Hurled then into the ways of cruelty and his joys trodden underfoot: the working out of the curse on Laios and the whole family of the Labdacids.
This raises a question about interpretation: We are not trying to analyse Sophokles: only to recognize his genius in understanding and portraying character; we cannot, of course, analyse the mythical or legendary Kreon; only the character brilliantly portrayed by Sophokles.
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 Works of Lucian, Vol. IV: Slander, a Warning
We are all walkers in darkness--or say, our experience is that of blind men, knocking helplessly against the real, and stepping high to clear the imaginary, failing to see what is close at their feet, and in terror of being hurt by something that is leagues away.
This it is that has found the tragic poets a thousand themes, Labdacids, Pelopids, and all their kind.
Inquiry would show that most of the calamities put upon the boards are arranged by ignorance as by some supernatural stage-manager.
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 Angela Robey "From Oedipus to Periander"
Stressed importance of common trait of lameness in three generations of Labdacids
Labdacus: the lame, legs are not alike, not of the same size or strength
The Cause: 'If we are to believe Herodotus, it was to warn the Lacedemonians and their allies against tyranny'
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Sophocles has based his tragedy by the Corinthian king and queen, Polybus and Merope, who do not have children.
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 Study Guide to Bernard Knox's Introductions to *Oedipus the King*
If the play says this, does it still speak to us?
The play depends on the assertion that prophecy is valid, as proved in the legend about the House of Labdacids (embracing Laius, Oedipus, and the latter's children).
But do you believe in the historicity of this story?
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