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• n  (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles

• Oedipus
• King Oedipus
• Oedipus Rex

News & Articles

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• Gospel, Oedipus are amazing combination at Su Teatro
  In the 1980s, Lee Bruer and Bob Telson created a truly unique and moving production: “The Gospel at Colonus,” from Sophocles’ tragedy, “Oedipus at Colonus,” setting it in a black Pentecostal church. M
  June 20, 2013 - Highlands Ranch Herald

Quotes

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• John Densmore in Scotsman
  I mean, Oedipus kills his dad and has sex with his mom - bad stuff has happened in stories since the beginning of time, and I think it's not a new thing to be a storyteller and be in a story where there are bad things. It's also that there are very... Rachel Weisz http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Weisz&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHSoi4U-E5_B9EHHoAHQoCkk0ov6g National Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html%3Fid%3D2421728&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFCFoy2sLbcr6iOD8SaqMffL39QZg Jan 9, 2010 69264 92339 oedipus I thought I was in a band with a psychotic," says Densmore, "but then I wasn't well read and I didn't know the Oedipus myth."
• Edward Bond in guardian.co.uk
  There is a division in the Greeks,says Bond, "between the social problem and the self problem that we have to resolve. You can't have Orestes and Oedipus in the same play. You can't have Antigone and Medea in the same play. One also has to...