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	Electronic Antiquities Volume I, Number 1
		Oidipous' problem is his anger; not his anger simply, but that he does not perceive it.
		Oidipous is physically sighted, but he is blind to himself, to his own nature.
		That is, Oidipous is blind to his birth, he does not notice his swollen foot, his mother, and other things.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V1N1/diamond.html (1299 words)

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		Oidipous blinded himself with the brooches (peronai) of Iokaste; the same word is used by Euripides to describe the pins used to pierce the infant Oidipous' ankles.
		Oidipous now became king of Thebes and married his mother Iokaste; to the Thebans he was the smartest man in the world, since only he had known the answer to the riddle.
		Oidipous sent Kreon to Delphi to ask what they should do, and he came back with the answer that Thebes was being punished because they had not found and punished the murderer of the late king Laios.
	www.sporadestours.com /oidipous.html (1884 words)

	Oidipus at Colonus
		In Oidipous at Colonus, Sophocles' last play, the aged playwright returned to complete the story of Oidipous, whose downfall he had dramatized some twenty years earlier in Oidipous the King.
		The result was a drama of extraordinary power, in which Oidipous, after years of suffering for his earlier deeds, pleads his own innocence and confronts the array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves.
		That death provides the drama with an unforgettable climax which is also a unique account of a mortal acquiring the sacred status and superhuman powers of a cult hero.
	www.pullins.com /Books/0065XOidipousColonus.htm (219 words)

	SPHINX : Woman-headed lion, labor Oedipus ; Greek mythology ; pictures : PHIX
		Oidipous accepted the challenge, and when he solved the Sphinx's riddle, she cast herself off a mountainside in despair and in accordance with an oracle declaring the terms of her demise.
		Oidipous heard and solved it, stating that he answer to the Sphinx's question was man. As a baby he crawls on all fours, as an adult he is two-footed, and as he grows old he gains a third foot in the form of a cane.
		And while all the rest were perplexed, Oidipous declared that the animal proposed in the riddle was ‘man’, since as an infant he is a quadruped, when grown a biped, and in old age a triped, using, because of his infirmity, a staff.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/Sphinx.html (2265 words)

	The retreat from omnipotence in Sophokles' Antigone »
		Succeeding Oidipous as joint and alternating kings of Thebes, Eteokles refuses to hand over the kingship to Polyneikes when his turn comes and Polyneikes, with the assistance of Argos, a traditional enemy, attacks Thebes in an endeavour to enforce his claim.
		Electing rather to accept his doom, the curse of Oidipous, he asks Antigone to see that he is given proper burial rites to ensure his honourable acceptance into the underworld, 'the house of Hades'.
		Oidipous, who was only wounded and exposed on Mount Kitheron, but with fatal intent.]Finally, led in by a boy, the blind prophet Teiresias arrives and Kreon asks him why he has come and what is the matter.
	www.psychoanalysis.asn.au /downunder/backissues/issue1/103/retreat_omnipotence (4660 words)

	Sphínx (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Oidipous Coloneos (Oedipus at Colonus), the great final tragedy of Sophocles, which recounts the final day in Oidipous's life, Oidipous is very insistent that this was self-defense, for he feared for his life.
		Oidipous Coloneos shows him dependent on his two daughters, Antigone and Ismána, now in their early tenties and unmarried in their devotion to him, and the conflict between his two sons for the throne, with Kréon on and off it.
		Oidipous also ascended, though outside Athens he was said to have died in Kreon's dungeon.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /scottandrewh/sphinx.html (1196 words)

	Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology - PART IV Section I (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The newly born Oidipous was therefore exposed on the hillside, but, like Romulus and Remus, and all infants similarly situated in legend, was duly rescued.
		Oidipous destroyed the monster by solving her dark sayings, and as a reward received the kingdom, with his own mother, Iokaste, as his bride.
		To them Oidipous and Iokaste were human, or at least anthropomorphic beings; and a marriage between them was a fearful crime which called for bitter expiation.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/literarystudies/MythsandMyth-Makers/chap10.html (2517 words)

	- LIBROS DE DIBUJO Y ANIMACIÓN - Sophocles: The Theban Plays: Antigone/King Oidipous/Oidipous at Colonus (Focus ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the death of Oidipous, his sons, Eteocles and Polyneices engaged in a civil war for the throne of Thebes (covered in "Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus).
		The fact that the "burial" of her brother consists of the token gesture of throwing dirt upon his face, only serves to underscore the ambiguity of the situation Sophocles is developing.
		In terms of its lack of dramatic structure (the scenes are connected by the character of Oidipous rather than by the loosely constructed plot) and the melancholy of its lyric odes it is the most atypical of the extant plays of Sophocles.
	www.dibunet.com /amazon-buy-1585100374.html (1273 words)

	Blondell,Ruby Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In Oidipous at Colonus, Sophocles' last play, the aged playwright returned to complete the story of Oidipous, whose downfall he had dramatized some twenty years earlier in Oidipous the King.
		The result was a drama of extraordinary power, in which Oidipous, after years of suffering for his earlier deeds, pleads his own innocence and confronts the...
		Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Blondell,Ruby (324 words)

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		During the course of the drama he turned from the archetypal symbol of Athenian rule to a terrifying witness of the vengeance of the gods.
		Sally Leonard as Jocasta also acted with commendable energy and originality as she, like Oidipous, gradually shunned all Athenian wisdom, prophecy and logic during the course of the play, turning to an ideology that can only be described as anarchistic.
		Creon and Tiresias were less convincing on stage, but a truly stunning Chorus compensated for any inadequacy on their part.
	www.wycombeabbey.com /news/mainnews2.htm (1219 words)

	Myths and Myth-Makers: IV. Light And Darkness by John Fiske
		Oidipous destroyed themonster by solving her dark sayings, and as a reward receivedthe kingdom, with his own mother, Iokaste, as his bride.
		Thenthe Erinyes hastened the discovery of these dark deeds;Iokaste died in her bridal chamber; and Oidipous, havingblinded himself, fled to the grove of the Eumenides, nearAthens, where, amid flashing lightning and peals of thunder,he died.
		The Sphinx is the storm-demon whosits on the cloud-rock and imprisons the rain; she is the sameas Medusa, Ahi, or Echidna, and Chimaira, and is akin to thethrottling snakes of darkness which the jealous Here sent todestroy Herakles in his cradle.
	englishatheist.org /folklore/fiskefour.shtml (8046 words)

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		We fear because we see this as resulting from a flaw, hamartia, in Oidipous' character.
		For I am looking into every story.(5) The chorus replies that Laios was killed by some hodoiporon (292), a word which, when pronounced correctly, hauntingly resembles a form of *Oidipous*.
		Consider Teiresias statement: You have sight, but you do not see where you are in evil or where you dwell, or with whom you are living (413-414).
	humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk /humftp/Euro-Studies/Classics/sophocles.diamond (1441 words)

	Aristotle on Oedipus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the Oidipous, for example, the messenger who comes to gladden Oidipous and release him from his fears about his mother, actually produces just the opposite effect through revealing the secret of his birth.
		A discovery (ana-gnorisis), as the word itself indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge, and thereby to either friendship or enmity, according as the characters involved are marked for good or evil fortune.
		It is possible to "discover," within our meaning of the word, whether a person has done something or not, and there may even be discoveries most intimately connected with the plot and the dramatic action is such as we have been describing.
	department.monm.edu /classics/Courses/CLAS210/CourseDocuments/Tragedy/aristotle_on_oedipus.htm (427 words)

	MYTHS of THEBES:OIDIPOUS
		Laios should have a son, that son will kill him.
		This is what happens to Oidipous in Sophocles'
		, Oidipous is not exiled but is kept as a blind prisoner in the palace by his sons, whom he curses for mistreating him.
	www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/oidipous.htm (1093 words)

	Amazon.com: Sophocles: The Theban Plays: Antigone/King Oidipous/Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library): Books: ...
		Key Phrases: strophic pairs, lyric dialogue, iambic trimeters, Enter Kreon, Enter Theseus, Enter Oidipous (more...
		The three plays of Sophocle's Oidipous Cycle in one volume: Antigone, King Oidipus and Oidipous at Colonus.
		Translated, updated and annotated by Ruby Blondell, whose new translations are aimed at all those, especially students and teachers, who wish to work with an English version that closely follows the Greek original.
	www.amazon.com /Sophocles-Antigone-Oidipous-Colonus-Classical/dp/1585100374 (394 words)

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