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	Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oedipus Rex is an "Opera-oratorio" by Igor Stravinsky.
		Creon, brother-in-law to Oedipus, returns from the oracle at Delphi and declaims the words of the gods: Thebes is harboring the murderer of Laius, the previous king.
		Oedipus departs Thebes forever as the chorus at first vents their anger and then mourns the loss of a king they loved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_Rex (524 words)

	Oedipus Rex
		Oedipus, outraged at the accusation, denounces it as a plot of Creon to gain the throne.
		An aged messenger arrives from Corinth, at this point, to announce the death of King Polybus, supposed father of Oedipus, and the election of Oedipus as king in his stead.
		To calm his fears the messenger assures him that he is not the blood son of Polybus and Merope, but a foundling from the house of Laius deserted in the mountains.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/oedipus001.html (464 words)

	Oedipus the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oedipus the King (also known as Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Tyrannos, Oι̉δίπoυς τύραννoς in Greek) is a Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles around 427 BC.
		The subject of the play is Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta; a mythical character who was sent to be exposed on a mountainside as an infant in an effort to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father.
		Oedipus goes on to solve the Sphinx's riddle, and his reward for this is the kingdom of Thebes, and the hand of Jocasta; again, neither recognizes the other.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_the_King (720 words)

	Oedipus Rex Summary
		Oedipus, furious at the suggestion of his guilt, berated the prophet, who retorted by insisting that Oedipus was yet blind to the truth and would soon learn of his guilt.
		Oedipus was horrified by this account, and immediately sent for the herdsman, who told him the full story of the servant and child he had dealt with years before.
		Oedipus, then, is a hero who pits his pride against both gods and fate in the mold of Prometheus (whose downfall was caused by his sharing the gift of fire with man) and another heroine, Cassandra, who was cursed with the blessing of prophecy.
	www.awerty.com /oedipus2.html (1539 words)

	OEDIPUS AND HIS HUMAN DESTINY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oedipus is the man with swollen feet (oidos), illness which resembles the accursed child, rejected by his parents, left to die in the cruel nature.
		Oedipus underwent several changes to get to this point: bastard son, undesirable outcome of careless intercourse, condemned to premature death, he became prince, beloved by Merope and Polybus and by all the people of Corinth; from this point became frightened puppet-son and self-exiled pariah, lonely wanderer haunted by the oracular phantasm.
		Oedipus’ actions were in the realm of Apollo, the oblique, and of everything he accomplished.
	www.human-nature.com /free-associations/emm.html (3039 words)

	84.02.03: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oedipus, whom in the first scene the Priest calls “the first of men,” to whom all knees are bent, is at the end of the play polluted, blind, banished from the land he ruled and loved and from the people who lovingly obeyed him.
		Oedipus is guilty of pride and temper, injustice as a ruler and an unorthodox attitude toward seers and oracles.
		Oedipus is not the son of Polybus and Merope.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.03.x.html (9335 words)

	The Classics Pages - Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles
		Oedipus is enraged, believing that Teiresias and Creon have concocted this story to dethrone him and seize power for themselves.
		Oedipus goes in, continuing to insist he should be left to die on Cithaeron as the gods originally intended.
		Oedipus is thus the patron saint of philosophers, scientists, poets and artists - of all truth-seekers.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/myth.htm (1630 words)

	Enjoying "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles
		Oedipus issues a policy statement, that whoever comes forward with information about the murder of Laius will be rewarded, and that if the killer himself confesses, he will not be punished beyond having to leave the city permanently.
		Oedipus questions the messenger, and learns the messenger had been herding sheep, had met a shepherd who had found Oedipus, had taken the baby, had taken the pin out of his ankles, and had given him to the king and queen of Corinth to raise as their own.
		Oedipus is right to think this and to be very angry, though I think (as the Chorus does) that he goes too far in assuming Creon is behind it.
	www.pathguy.com /oedipus.htm (9918 words)

	Dr. J's Lecture on Oedipus and the Sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oedipus comes onto the scene in Thebes after killing the sphinx, a mythical creature with very specific and foreboding connotations from Greek mythology.
		This is what Oedipus saves the people of Thebes from when he kills the sphinx, certainly a threat in the mythic sense.
		So the fact that in OT Oedipus begins with a rep for killing a man-eater and ends with the discovery that he has committed incest (mythically equivalent crimes) is the key, I think.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics/texts/Oedipus/sphinx.shtm (506 words)

	Oedipus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Oedipus was grown, he learned from the Delphic oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
		He continued on to Thebes, where the sphinx was killing all who could not solve her riddle.
		According to Homer, Oedipus continued to reign over Thebes until he was killed in battle; but the more common version is that he was exiled by Creon, Jocasta’s brother, and his sons battled for the throne (see Seven against Thebes).
	www.bartleby.com /65/oe/Oedipus.html (315 words)

	Oedipus Brief Summary
		Oedipus was welcomed as a savior of the city and he was offered the vacant throne.
		Oedipus dedicated himself to solve the mystery of the murder and thereby rid the city of its curse.
		Oedipus Tyrannus is also on Perseus), Antigone (Oedipus's daughter) (Perseus), Oedipus at Colonnus (Perseus); Electra (Perseus).
	www.sfusd.edu /schwww/sch618/GreeksMultimediaProject/Oedipus/Oedipus_Brief_Summary.html (2217 words)

	[ The Greeks ] - Educational Resources - Lesson 4
		Oedipus calls the citizens of Thebes 'the children of Cadmus' because he was the mythical character who founded the city, after slaying a dragon and sowing its teeth to make the first inhabitants.
		For example, when Oedipus condemns the murder which has brought about the plague he is in fact condemning himself (the man who unknowingly killed his own father and took his mother as his wife).
		Aristotle believed Oedipus Rex to be the finest of all tragedies because the protagonist's recognition of the truth coincides with the reversal of his fortunes.
	www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/educational/lesson4.html (1489 words)

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		OEDIPUS In thy report of what the herdsman said Laius was slain by robbers; now if he Still speaks of robbers, not a robber, I Slew him not; "one" with "many" cannot square.
		OEDIPUS Be of good cheer; though I be proved the son Of a bondwoman, aye, through three descents Triply a slave, thy honor is unsmirched.
		OEDIPUS Aye, and on thee in all humility I lay this charge: let her who lies within Receive such burial as thou shalt ordain; Such rites 'tis thine, as brother, to perform.
	classics.mit.edu /Sophocles/oedipus.pl.txt (10813 words)

	Oedipus Rex - History for Kids!
		When Oedipus grew up, he also listened to an oracle, and the oracle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
		When Oedipus answered the riddle correctly, the Sphinx was so upset that she killed herself.
		King Oedipus sent a messenger to the oracle at Delphi to find out why the gods had sent this terrible plague.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/literature/oedipus.htm (683 words)

	Shows -- Oedipus 2005
		She is Oedipus' wife as well as his mother but is as ignorant about the latter fact as is Oedipus.
		Oedipus enters, in the robes of a king: for a moment he gazes silently on the groups at the altars, then speaks.
		Oedipus (1896) [poem: Oedipus (1906) - poem by K.P. Kavafis] Written after reading the description of the painting Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustav Moreau The Sphinx has fallen on him with her teeth and nails outstretched, and all the savagery of life.
	shows.vtheatre.net /oedipus/title.html (1861 words)

	English: Oedipus Rex - Bliss in Ignorance
		Indeed, the situation of Oedipus, king of Thebes, the truth of this statement is in question.
		Oedipus, up to the point in which he heard the comment in the tavern in Corinth, lived an unexamined life.
		However, in a much less metaphysical sense, Oedipus' life was complete, in that he had all that he needed, and was living a happy and fruitful life.
	www.cyberessays.com /English/212.htm (864 words)

	Lesson Exchange: Discussion questions on Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (Senior, Literature)
		What can only be termed “magical thinking” permits Oedipus to connect the murder of Laius, former ruler of Thebes, with the state of the kingdom at the outset of the play.
		Creon tells Oedipus that he has “lost his sense of balance” and is “sullen in yielding and brutal in rage”.
		Oedipus calls himself an “abomination” for killing his father and marrying his mother.
	www.teachers.net /lessons/posts/2779.html (746 words)

	Oedipus Study Guide
		Oedipus rules over Thebes, a city whose mythological background is important to understanding the play.
		Oedipus even begins the play by calling its residents the "new blood of ancient Cadmus" (not "ancient Thebes", as Fagles' liberally translates the Gre ek).
		Note the half-line exchanges between Oedipus and the Herdsman; this marks the heightened suspense and excitement in the dialogue.
	www.temple.edu /classics/oedipus.html (987 words)

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		The main reason for this new translation of the Oedipus Tyrannus is the desire to produce a dynamic and powerful version which is as accurate as any non-literal translation can be and which thus reflects as far as any translation can, the spirit of the original.
		Oedipus was certain of himself - he knew he had great skill [ did he not solve the riddle of the Sphinx?]; he had great strength and courage [did he not by his own hands kill many men when he believed himself attacked (vv.801ff)]; he had power and wealth [was he not King of Thebes?].
		Oedipus goes on to say that his own blindness - which the blind prophet Tiresias had foreseen - was not the work of the gods, but his own handiwork.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/4979/oedipus.html (13578 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Oedipus Rex (1957)
		It's Oedipus Rex, which we all learned about in high school as the play with the king who killed his father and married (and had children by) his mother.
		This ancient masterpiece of incest, divine whim, and the inescapability of fate is such a primal story that its naked exposure of key issues in the human psyche gave Freud a complex.
		Guthrie interpreted Oedipus Rex as a dramatization of the annual scapegoat-sacrifice of the king, the basis (some scholars think) of much Greek religion.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/o/oedipusrex57.q.shtml (954 words)

	The Stage Online :: Reviews :: Les Noces/Oedipus Rex
		The second offering from the visiting Mariinsky Theatre of St Petersburg under their charismatic artistic director Valery Gergiev was this Stravinsky double bill, consisting of the sung ballet Les Noces and the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex.
		Oedipus, halfway between a concert work and a stage piece anyway, found a relaxed Narrator in Tim Piggott-Smith, seated throughout as if he was reading us a bedtime story from an armchair.
		It is worth remembering that neither of these works, written during the composer’s long exile from his homeland, was made welcome there until recently, and at least as far as Oedipus went there was a tentative quality to this performance, with Gergiev scarcely looking up from his score.
	www.thestage.co.uk /reviews/review.php/6785 (335 words)

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	www.orexgallery.co.nz (85 words)

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		D C G Reassurance slightly returned to Oedipus' head D C G But he still feared the thought of his mother's bed D C G Away from Corinth, Oedipus would stay D C (No chords) G Would he return?
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	Fate and the Hero in Oedipus Rex
		Saturday afternoon whether Oedipus was a victim of fate or of his
		Oedipus also demonstrates his compassionate nature when he tells the
		Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." An Introduction to Literature, 11th ed.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Tidepool/8194/index13.html (3474 words)

	Sophocles. 1909–14. Oedipus the King. Vol. 8, Part 5. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Fiction > Harvard Classics > Sophocles > Oedipus the King
		Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
		Unknowingly, Oedipus kills his father, King Laius of Thebes, and marries his mother, Jocasta.
	www.bartleby.com /8/5 (89 words)

	Great Books Index - Sophocles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		-- Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone combined in one file.
		-- Discusses four plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone and Philoctetes.
		-- D.W. Myatt's notes to accompany his new translations of Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone.
	books.mirror.org /gb.sophocles.html (310 words)

	Oedipus Rex, conclusion
		Crave not to be master in all things: for the mastery which thou didst win hath not followed thee through life.
		Dwellers in our native Thebes, behold, this is Oedipus, who knew the famed riddle, and was a man most mighty; on whose fortunes what citizen did not gaze with envy?
		Behold into what a stormy sea of dread trouble he hath come!
	www.haverford.edu /psych/ddavis/p109g/oedipus.html (620 words)

	SparkNotes: Complete Text of The Oedipus Trilogy: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus: Chapter 2
		SparkNotes: Complete Text of The Oedipus Trilogy: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus: Chapter 2
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		To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born
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