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| | Oedipus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Finally, the seer Teiresias reveals to Oedipus that Oedipus himself was the source of the pollution. | | | Laius, Oedipus' father, kidnapped and raped the young boy Chrysippus and was then cursed by Chrysippus' father, Pelops. | | | Within a short time, divine signs of misfortune and pollution began to appear in Thebes, which caused the king to seek out their cause. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus
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| | MSN Encarta - Oedipus |
| | Oedipus, in Greek mythology, king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes. | | | Oedipus died at this shrine, after the god Apollo had promised him that the place of his death would remain sacred and would bring great benefit to the city of Athens, which had given shelter to the wanderer. | | | The infant was rescued by a shepherd, however, and given to Polybus, king of Corinth, who named the child Oedipus (swollen foot) and raised him as his own son. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557812/Oedipus.html
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| | House of Thebes |
| | Genealogy: House of Thebes and the Houses of Seers. | | | Eteocles and Polyneices were the sons of Oedipus and Jocasta. | | | Instead of a blessing, Oedipus cursed both of his sons for not settling their differences. |
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http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/thebes.html
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| | OEDIPUS AND HIS HUMAN DESTINY |
| | Oedipus’ actions were in the realm of Apollo, the oblique, and of everything he accomplished. | | | Not so for the ones who surround him, but to himself, and this is what frees him from the oracular destiny, this is what makes him transcend the misery, giving new meaning and new sense of direction to his life. | | | It is also true that it is in him that the character of all human beings manifests itself, the arrogance, the prepotence, the challenge to a superior god. |
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http://www.human-nature.com/free-associations/emm.html
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| | Oedipus Rex Summary |
| | Oedipus was thus raised to believe that he was the natural son of Polybus. | | | Fearing the divination's fulfillment, Laius and Jocasta delivered Oedipus, their infant son, to a servant, with orders that he be killed. | | | Oedipus, wholly unaware that he himself was the one who had struck down Laius, vowed to discover the identity of the murderer at all costs: |
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http://www.awerty.com/oedipus2.html
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| | Oedipus |
| | The oracle Pythia gave him was a terrible one: he was destined to kill his father, lie with his mother and be the founding father of a terrible house. | | | One day, during a feast, a drunken youth taunted Oedipus with not being the legitimate son of the king. | | | He himself, he told Oedipus, had found him with bound feet in the arms of a shepherd on Mt Cithaeron and had taken him to Corinth. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3449/oedipus.html
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| | CREON Ask this of the gods, not me. OEDIPUS But I am the gods' abhorrence. | | | OEDIPUS Elders, if I, who never yet before Have met the man, may make a guess, methinks I see the herdsman who we long have sought; His time-worn aspect matches with the years Of yonder aged messenger; besides I seem to recognize the men who bring him As servants of my own. | | | OEDIPUS I should have shared in full thy confidence, Were not my mother living; since she lives Though half convinced I still must live in dread. |
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http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.pl.txt
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| | The Myth of Oedipus |
| | Oedipus sent Kreon to the Oracle of Delphi to ask the cause of the divine punishment. | | | Tiresias is named as "the prophet in whom lives the incarnated truth." He is blind in earthly sense, but a seer in spiritual matters. | | | Not understanding Oedipus' emotion, she answered: "He had a tall body and his hair was becoming grey." |
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http://www.humanbeing.demon.nl/humanbeingsweb/Library/oedi_en/oedi_en_3.htm
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| | The Classics Pages - Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles |
| | Oedipus places a terrible curse on the killer - whoever he may be, and turns for help to Teiresias, the respected prophet. | | | Jocasta now knows the truth - that Oedipus is her son - and rushes out. | | | Under threat of torture, he reveals that the baby was given to him by Jocasta to be killed - and that he'd passed it on to the Corinthian out of pity. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm
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| | Oedipus Rex |
| | 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. | | | On account of the old prophecy Oedipus refuses to return to Corinth until his mother, too, is dead. | | | Thus the ancient prophecy has been fulfilled in each dreadful detail. |
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http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html
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| | King Oedipus Homework Page |
| | Ironically, Oedipus assured the people that he would do everything within his powers to avenge the death of the old king, just as if the late king were his own father. | | | Oedipus' death is a mystery, and his resting place will protect Athens (see Sophocles, Oedipus in Colonus). | | | Informing Oedipus that he is far too young to speak to him in that fashion, Teiresias told the king that "before the sun is down, you will find out yourself a husband and a son and brother of your children." |
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http://www.thanasis.com/oedipus.htm
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| | The Classics Pages - Oedipus and the Sphinx |
| | Oedipus courageously sees the possibilty of Chaos, but finally accepts what the gods have done to him. | | | Life, as Jocasta believed, is lived at random, and Oedipus would truly be the son of Tyche (Chance). | | | If religion (by which they mean oracles - the only ancient channel of communication between gods and men) goes to blazes (which is what the Greek phrase errhei de ta theia almost literally means); if there is no foreknowledge (pronoia,), then quite simply there are no gods. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sphinx.htm
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus the King - Short Summary |
| | Jocasta comforts him by telling him that there is no truth in oracles or prophets, and she has proof. | | | He did in fact give the messenger a baby boy, and that baby boy was Laius's son, the very same son that Jocasta and Laius left on a hillside to die because of the oracle's prophecy. | | | They explain the nature of their argument to Jocasta, who begs Oedipus to believe Creon. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/oedipus/shortsumm.html
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| | Shows -- Oedipus 2005 |
| | (This in spite of the fact that the central crime in Oedipus the King was committed in ignorance.) As to style, a certain archaic quality of diction is needful to the dignity of tragedy. | | | Losing his patience, Oedipus began calling Teiresias a "wicked old man." He even began accusing the blind prophet of assisting in King Laius’ murder by keeping silent. | | | King Oedipus even pleaded to Teiresias to reveal the truth, but Teiresias was relentlessly silent. |
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http://shows.vtheatre.net/oedipus/title.html
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| | Oedipus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | 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). | | | The baby was rescued, however, by a shepherd and brought to the king of Corinth, who adopted him. | | | In Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus is guided in his later wanderings by his faithful daughter, Antigone. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/oe/Oedipus.html
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| | Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: A searchable online version at The Literature Network |
| | Oedipus promises the knowledge of his tomb only to the kings of Athens. | | | I have read sources from Homer to Seneca and modern day anthologies of Greek mythology without discovering the answer. | | | At this point in time, it is 15 years after the prophecy given to him by the Oracle of Delphi of his father dying and him marrying his mother. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/sophocles/oedipus
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| | OEDIPUS a screenplay by Sanderson Beck adapted from Sophocles |
| | Oedipus carrying a spear is walking toward Thebes where the three roads meet when a chariot with LAIUS and his charioteer POLYPHONTES arrive on the road from Thebes. | | | Then Oedipus takes up his spear and begins to hobble down the road toward Thebes. | | | That would be only the gods or my father, |
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http://www.san.beck.org/Oedipus.html
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| | Oedipus (6) |
| | Oedipus the King is the classic drama of incest, mistaken identity, and self-punishment, here in Grene's lucid and moving translation. | | | The following books will introduce you to Oedipus, who said these words in Sophocles' Oedipus the King (see below).. | | | Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues. |
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http://www.fictional100.com/oedipus.html
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| | Technorati Tag: oedipus |
| | Many people spend the later part of their lives wandering what they could have done if certain events had or had not taken place in their lives or if... | | | I believe that had not Laius and Jocasta fastened Oedipus by the ankles and... | | | Posts tagged Oedipus per day for the last 30 days. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/oedipus
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| | Oedipus Project |
| | Others have been abandoned, and are marked as dead; feel free to pick up any of these dead projects and resurrect them. | | | The Oedipus project is a SourceForge project that I've recycled to provide a CVS server and bug tracker for various projects of mine. |
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http://oedipus.sourceforge.net
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| | Amazon.com: Oedipus The King (Enriched Classics): Books: Bernard Knox |
| | It took the Greek world by storm, and has been handed down to future generations who have also been greatly influenced by it. | | | Oedipus the King (also known as Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannus) is the story of Oedipus, the king of Thebes, which is suffering under a horrific plague. | | | Still, there is the fact that because even those who do not know the play know the story about the man who killed his father and married his mother, "Oedipus The King" is usually misread by students. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671888048?v=glance
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| | Oedipus complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The idea is based on the Greek myth of Oedipus, who kills his father Laius and marries his mother Jocasta. | | | Popular culture often portrays Freud as overly focused on sexual influences and his theory of the Oedipus Complex is often considered untenable. | | | The Oedipus conflict or complex is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain the origin of certain neuroses in childhood. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex
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| | Oedipus free essays |
| | “Oedipus: A Tragic Hero” In Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex,” a tragic play about a king who killed his father and married his mother, Oedipus plays a tragic hero who has a destiny determined by the Greek God’s. | | | There are three aspects that determine his tragic heroism. | | | Fate Throughout Sophocless Three Theban Plays Antigone Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus |
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http://www.needfreeessays.com/viewpaper/39319.html
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| | OEDIPUS OF LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA - Translated and Adapted by Michael Rutenberg, 1999. |
| | Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s Oedipus, freely adapted by Professor Michael Elliot Rutenberg, is the first translation of this Roman tragedy to interpolate excerpts from Seneca’s moral philosophies into the text. | | | This juxtaposition of Seneca’s calm, rational thought with the passionate, highly theatrical language of his play, creates an exciting synergy of powerful emotional and intellectual appeal. | | | The Oedipus Myth • Excerpt 1 • Excerpt 2 • Excerpt 3 • Staging Oedipus |
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http://www.oedipusmax.com
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| | Great Books Index - Sophocles |
| | -- D.W. Myatt's notes to accompany his new translations of Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. | | | -- The three Oedipus plays, translated by F. Storr. |
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| | Oedipus (2004) |
| | Having Oedipus played by a potato makes perfect sense when you consider he has to put out his eyes. | | | This short is lovely to look at and funny to listen to. | | | The settings are derived from the Hollywood widescreen toga epics of the 1950s, and are quite grand. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392560
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| | This is a real University Essay titled, "Planes, Trains, and Plantains: The story of Oedipus" submitted November 30, 2004. | | | Planes, Trains, and Plantains: The story of Oedipus |
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http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/image/essay/1
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