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	Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: A Map of the Soul
		Oedipus and Thebes are intimately related: we may understand the play as a portrait of Oedipus' city at a crucial moment in the city's life, or as a portrait of Oedipus at a crucial moment in his life.
		It is fascinating that the very qualities that have raised Oedipus to his leadership position--his intelligence, dedication to the truth, energy and perseverence--prove to be his undoing.
		It is also "amazing" that Oedipus attacks--with brooches taken from his wife and mother's body--the eyes that were known for seeing through reality's confusion to the truth.
	www.writer2001.com /badger.htm (645 words)

	Oedipus the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main character of the tragedy is Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta.
		Oedipus is a mythical character who was sent to die or be killed with his ankles bound and his feet punctured, where he was left for dead on a mountainside as an infant in an effort to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
		Oedipus is mentioned briefy in the Iliad: "Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funeral, and he beat all the people of Cadmus." (Book 23, ln 756).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_the_King (1186 words)

	Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles Criticism and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oedipus Tyrannus is considered Sophocles's masterpiece and is probably the most famous of all the Greek tragedies.
		Oedipus struck the driver and in return was struck by the man being drawn in the wagon; in the fight that followed, Oedipus slew them all—or so he thought.
		Critics agree that Oedipus Tyrannus is a gripping exploration of the role of the gods in man's life and a warning to mankind to avoid becoming too proud, too godlike.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/oedipus-tyrannus-sophocles (1182 words)

	Oedipus_Tyrannus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oedipus then went on to Thebes where the city was under siege by a Sphinx, a beast half-lion and half-woman.
		Oedipus encountered the Sphinx but knew the answer: man. As a baby he crawls on all fours, as a man he walks erect, as an old man he uses a cane.
		Oedipus was raised at Corinth as the son of king Polybus and his Queen Merope.
	www.greek-myth.com /Mythology/Oedipus/oedipus_tyrannus.htm (5175 words)

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		Professor Segal's Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge is a useful contribution to this series, providing exactly the sort of information a student encountering the play for the first time will need and enjoy, and much to interest the specialist as well.
		Oedipus thus serves in the last scene of the play as the model of a man who has both knowledge of the human condition, and the strength to accept and endure it.
		Oedipus demands a sword--a weapon of penetration--and bursts in the double doors of the chamber, "double" as a signifier of the double marriage, the twice-sown womb.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9508-bowman-oedipus.txt (2022 words)

	Oedipus Tyrannus
		Oedipus reveals that while a young man at Corinth he heard rumours that he was not the son of Polybus and Merope; Apollo's oracle told him he would kill his father and have children by his mother; on the way to Thebes, he quarreled with and killed a man who (he now realizes) was Laius.
		He got Oedipus from a servant of Laius, a shepherd, who turns out to be the same man who was eyewitness to Laius' murder; Oedipus is more anxious than ever to question this man. Jocasta realizes the whole truth, but does not reveal her knowledge.
		Oedipus reappears with his eyes mutilated, and he and the chorus sing in lamentation; Oedipus blames Apollo; the chorus suggests that he would be better off dead (1298-1368).
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/Hum110/Oedipus.html (1006 words)

	Oedipus Rex
		SOME twelve years before the action of the play begins, Oedipus has been made King of Thebes in gratitude for his freeing the people from the pestilence brought on them by the presence of the riddling Sphinx.
		Oedipus, outraged at the accusation, denounces it as a plot of Creon to gain the throne.
		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 (474 words)

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		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 himself accepts that his troubles were the work of the gods: "It was Apollo - Apollo who brought such troubles to such a troubled ending." (vv.1329-1330).
		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/notes.html (834 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)

	Essay Title
		Oedipus is an archetypal hero because he follows the quest, and is later the sacrificial scapegoat.
		Oedipus slowly discovering the truth behind his fate through his wife and mother Jocasta; this discovery is the evidence that leads to Oedipus becoming the sacrificial scapegoat (lines 489-900).
		Oedipus explains that he was in Delphia where the three roads met and that he too killed a man and his men in that spot.
	dcr.csusb.edu /honors/01/evansa.htm (1116 words)

	Dr. J's Lecture on Oedipus and the Sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	[ 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)

	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)

	Essay Title
		Oedipus is clearly held accountable to the gods, and so it can be argued that the gods exploit and take advantage of Oedipus' human qualities.
		It can be deduced that the gods, who controlled the fate of Oedipus, intentionally used these traits against him in the same way factory owners used their workers diligent work to achieve and maintain a high social status.
		Oedipus could not determine his own fate, much like employees who are forced to work just to merely survive.
	dcr.csusb.edu /honors/01/ridera.htm (837 words)

	Analysis of the Oedipus Trilogy, Mythology, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
		The Oedipus Trilogy was originally written by Sophocles and is meant to be told in a story-telling fashion.
		Oedipus solves the riddle and the Sphynx throws itself from its perch upon a rock outside the city.
		Oedipus has Creon, brother to Jocasta, tend to his last affairs and assume kingship of Thebes.
	chuckiii.com /Reports/Mythology/Analysis_of_the_Oedipus_Trilogy.shtml (1332 words)

	Opinion: Mary Lefkowtiz on Oedipus
		Oedipus had thought he was the son of Polybus, the king of Corinth, and his wife Merope.
		Oedipus was determined to keep the terrible prophecy from being fulfilled, so he did not return to his home in Corinth.
		Oedipus is not reassured by Jocasta's words, because he now suspects that the old man he killed long ago at the place where three roads meet was in fact King Laius.
	www.amrep.org /articles/2_4a/opinion.html (1705 words)

	Preliminary Bibliography on Oedipus
		Cameron, A. The Identity of Oedipus the King: Five Essays on the Oedipus Tyrannus.
		Dodds, E.R. 'On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex.' Greece and Rome 13 1966 37-49.
		Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: Oedipus Tyrannus in Modern Criticism and Philosophy.
	omni.cc.purdue.edu /~corax/oedipusbiblio.html (553 words)

	Oedipus Tryannus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We’ll follow Oedipus and his family, which is essentially a single storyline, but it will gather about it considerable information concerning several of the gods and goddesses.
		But during the last class, after we bury of the dead, we’ll follow Oedipus’ last descendent into the Aegean to an island now called Santorini but also called, as it was in ancient times, Thera.
		The volcanic island is one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world, brilliant white buildings of the modern town atop startling sheer cliffs overlooking the crystal blue waters of the Aegean with steam rising from the fl rocks in the center of the volcano.
	greek-myth.com /Mythology/oedipus_tyrannus.htm (5647 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 (1932 words)

	Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oedipus has already sent Creon to Delphi, who arrives to report that the killer of Laius must be sought out and banished.
		Oedipus worries about the oracle; Jocasta denounces its veracity, adducing the prophesy about her son.
		Oedipus begs him to take care of his children; Antigone and Ismene (mute) arrive to comfort their father.
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/summaries/oedipusrex.html (432 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.09.24
		Charles Segal, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge.
		The emphasis in the messenger speech is similarly on what the messenger himself couldn't see -- because the doors to the chamber were closed; because all eyes were drawn to Oedipus; because Oedipus was standing in the way.
		Oedipus demands a sword -- a weapon of penetration -- and bursts in the double doors of the chamber, "double" as a signifier of the double marriage, the twice-sown womb.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.09.24.html (2010 words)

	Synopsis of Oedipus the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Greek drama by SOPHOCLES first produced about 429 BC, Oedipus Rex, more properly called Oedipus Tyrannus, was praised in the POETICS OF ARISTOTLE as the model for classical TRAGEDY and is still considered a principal example of the genre.
		Oedipus Rex, with Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, constitute what is known as the Oedipus Cycle.
		Bibliography: Cook, A., Oedipus Rex: A Mirror for Greek Drama (1982); Kallich, Martin, et al., eds., Oedipus: Myth and Drama (1968); O'Brien, Michael J., ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex (1968); Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version, ed.
	www.honors.montana.edu /~oelks/TC/Oedipussyn.html (265 words)

	Past Productions: Oedipus
		Oedipus has unknowingly fulfilled a prophecy issued at his birth by the Delphic oracle, that he would in time kill his father and marry his mother.
		Oedipus realizes that the prophecy has come true, and that he did indeed murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta.
		Oedipus asks to be banished and, bidding farewell to his daughters Antigone and Ismene, the blind man leaves the city.
	www.amrep.org /oedipus (564 words)

	Theatre UAF Season
		From the very beginning of the play, Oedipus has an enormously powerful sense of his own excellence and the people demonstrate their confidence in him by asking him to stop the plague.
		The interplay between Oedipus' sense of freedom and our knowledge of the outcome is the battle between fate and free will and sets up the main dramatic power in the play.
		Oedipus thinks he has gained the knowledge that a man does not have to submit to fate; that thought is abhorrent to him and, possibly, to the play's modern audience.
	www.uaf.edu /theatre/archives/oedipus/tragicHero.htm (1016 words)

	Oedipus Rex Summary & Essays - Sophocles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the play Oedipus, King of Thebes, upon hearing that his city is being ravaged by fire and plague, sends his brother-in-law Creon to find a remedy from the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
		When Creon returns Oedipus begins investigating the death of his predecessor, Laius, and discovers through various means that he himself was the one who had unknowingly killed Laius and then married his own mother, Jocasta.
		Jocasta commits suicide, Oedipus blinds himself, takes leave of his children, and is led away.
	www.enotes.com /oedipus-rex (301 words)

	The Classics Pages - Oedipus and the Sphinx
		Oedipus outlived her, too, and married a third wife, Astymedusa, daughter of Sthenelus.
		Oedipus becomes the detective eager to unlock his own secret, and brave enough not only to condemn himself, but also to award the fit punishment.
		J.Vaio, The New Fragments of Euripides' Oedipus in GRBS 5, 1964; sch Eur.Phoen 50
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/sphinx.htm (3869 words)

	OedInterp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oedipus Tyrannos performed in 420s B.C. Oedipus is an examination of suffering.
		The figure of Oedipus may represent Athens at the height of its power, energy, daring, intellectual curiosity, and confidence in human reason.
		Oedipus as tyrannos, self-made ruler, is a symbol of civilized man, who was beginning to believe in the fifth century B.C. that he could seize control of his environment and make his own destiny
	iws.ccccd.edu /Andrade/WorldLitI2332/OedMetaphors.html (238 words)

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		Now free in his mind from the threat of Apollo’s prophesy that he would kill his father, Oedipus here wishes to confirm with his wife that, as his supposed mother (the queen of Corinth) is still alive, he must still take care lest he sleep with her, as the oracle also foretold.
		Oedipus is actually relieved and happy about the natural death of his supposed father Polybos, as in his mind this frees him from the worry that he will someday kill his father.
		At Oedipus’ birth his parents, terrified by the Delphic oracle’s prophesy that their son will violate the prehistoric taboos on their heads, send him away to die, just as the primal father sent away his sons when he felt threatened by them.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/lithum/gallo/freud.html (1365 words)

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