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  • I referred earlier to the ill-fated King Oedipus.†   (source)
  • She's named for the great tragic character from Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King (ca.†   (source)
  • Two and a half millennia ago Sophocles wrote a little play called Oedipus Rex.†   (source)
  • Quite lucky for Sophocles, if catastrophic for poor Oedipus.†   (source)
  • It did not stop at a retraction of the Oedipus article.†   (source)
  • The myth of Oedipus is a beautiful one, but treating it like this….†   (source)
  • But you've got to retract that article you wrote about Oedipus.†   (source)
  • It was apparently with this in mind that he picked up a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.†   (source)
  • She walked over to the bookshelves and took down Sophocles'Oedipus.†   (source)
  • No one could be more innocent, in his soul and conscience, than Oedipus.†   (source)
  • It was a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.†   (source)
  • A quarrel arose, and Oedipus killed the dignitary.†   (source)
  • In fact, being good Greeks, we knew this before we arrived at the theater, just from the meaning of the name, Oedipus—"Wounded Foot."†   (source)
  • Theseus protects Oedipus from potential harm and guides him to the sacred spot where the old man is fated to die.†   (source)
  • A truly great story or play, as "Araby" and Oedipus Rex are, makes demands on us as readers; in a sense it teaches us how to read it.†   (source)
  • In Oedipus Rex Sophocles has Thebes hit by various plagues—withered crops, stillborn children, the works—but here as in general use, plague carries with it the implication of bubonic.†   (source)
  • Moreover, they address the personality of his parents, especially Jocasta, who tried to elude the curse, and of Oedipus himself, who seems never to have inquired as to how he came to have these scars.†   (source)
  • For example, first-time readers or viewers will observe that Tiresias is blind but sees the real story, and Oedipus is blind to the truth and eventually blinds himself.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Oedipus's feet are damaged from the thong that was put through his Achilles tendons when, as an infant, he was sent away to die in the wilderness.†   (source)
  • More than any other work, Oedipus Rex taught me how to read literary blindness, taught me that as soon as we notice blindness and sight as thematic components of a work, more and more related images and phrases emerge in the text.†   (source)
  • At the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the king blinds himself, which is very definitely a kind of marking—of atonement, guilt, and contrition—and one that he will wear throughout the subsequent play, Oedipus at Colonus.†   (source)
  • When Sophocles is a very old man, he finally writes the middle third of his Theban trilogy of plays, Oedipus at Colonus (406 B.c.), in which the old and frail Oedipus arrives at Colonus and receives the protection of the Athenian king, Theseus.†   (source)
  • Tiresias, the blind seer, does indeed know the whole truth about King Oedipus, sees everything, although that knowledge is so painful that he tries to hold it back, and when he does blurt it out, it is in a moment of such anger that no one believes him.†   (source)
  • Oedipus has damaged feet.†   (source)
  • When we meet him again, in Oedipus at Colonus, it's many years later, and of course he's suffered greatly, but that suffering has redeemed him in the eyes of the gods, and rather than being a blight on the human landscape, he becomes a favorite of the gods, who welcome him into the next world with a miraculous death.†   (source)
  • Back to Oedipus.†   (source)
  • Because Tomas found this question second-rate, he sat down one day, wrote down his reflections on Oedipus, and sent them to the weekly.†   (source)
  • When Oedipus realized that he himself was the cause of their suffering, he put out his own eyes and wandered blind away from Thebes.†   (source)
  • The Oedipus article had been forgotten.†   (source)
  • Yes, that was why he had picked up the book and gone back to the stories of Romulus, Moses, and Oedipus.†   (source)
  • The story of Oedipus is well known: Abandoned as an infant, he was taken to King Polybus, who raised him.†   (source)
  • As if rewarding him for his decision, the editor said, That was a fine piece you wrote about Oedipus.†   (source)
  • What were these two trying to make him swallow, reducing his whole life to a single small idea about Oedipus or even less: to a single primitive no! in the face of the regime.†   (source)
  • It was in this connection that Tomas recalled the tale of Oedipus: Oedipus did not know he was sleeping with his own mother, yet when he realized what had happened, he did not feel innocent.†   (source)
  • Cust is saddled apparently by the whim of his mother-(Oedipus complex there, I shouldn't wonder!†   (source)
  • …fatty, beaky, noble Bourbon face was thoughtful, and he'd give you the lowdown on the mechanical age, and on strength and frailty, and piece it out with little digressions on the history of cripples--the dumbness of the Spartans, the fact that Oedipus was lame, that gods were often maimed, that Moses had faltering speech and Dmitri the Sorcerer a withered arm, Caesar and Mahomet epilepsy, Lord Nelson a pinned sleeve--but especially on the machine age and the kind of advantage that had…†   (source)
  • At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl and taken to play at the big table in the Jockey Club at Buenos Aires; he dined with Proust and Gide and was on closer terms with Cocteau and Diaghilev; Firbank sent him his novels with fervent inscriptions; he had aroused three irreconcilable feuds in Capri; by his own account he had practiced black art in Cefalit and had been cured of drug-taking in California and of an Oedipus complex in Vienna.†   (source)
  • This is the way from Oedipus to Hamlet.†   (source)
  • The innocent delight of Oedipus in his first possession of the queen turns to an agony of spirit when he learns who the woman is.†   (source)
  • For a God called him—called him many times, From many sides at once: "Ho, Oedipus, Thou Oedipus, why are we tarrying?†   (source)
  • Oedipus Plucking Out His Eyes (detail; carved stone, Roman, Italy, c. second–third century A.D.). of the manifest profile of The Great Face.†   (source)
  • The savior figure who eliminates the tyrant father and then himself assumes the crown is (like Oedipus) stepping into his sire's stead.†   (source)
  • Where this Oedipus-Hamlet revulsion remains to beset the soul, there the world, the body, and woman above all become the symbols no longer of victory but of defeat.†   (source)
  • As Dr. Freud has stated it: "King Oedipus, who slew his father Lahis and married his mother Jocasta, merely shows us the fulfilment of our own childhood wishes.†   (source)
  • King Oedipus came to know that the woman he had married was his mother, the man he had slain his father; he plucked his eyes out and wandered in penance over the earth.†   (source)
  • Should the feelings chance to become aware of the real import of the world's acts and thoughts, one would know what Oedipus knew: the flesh would suddenly appear to be an ocean of self-violation.†   (source)
  • The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.†   (source)
  • "0 God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams" (Hamlet "All neurotics," writes Dr. Freud, "are either Oedipus or Hamlet."†   (source)
  • This fateful infantile distribution of death (thanatos: destrudo) and love (eros: libido) impulses builds the foundation of the now celebrated Oedipus complex, which Sigmund Freud pointed out some fifty years ago as the great cause of our adult failure to behave like rational beings.†   (source)
  • 6s Tiresias, the blinded seer, was both male and female: his eyes were closed to the broken forms of the light-world of the pairs of opposites, yet he saw in his own interior darkness the destiny of Oedipus.†   (source)
  • …absent, unattainable mother, against whom aggressive fantasies are directed, and from whom a counter-aggression is feared; (z) the hampering, forbidding, punishing mother; (3) the mother who would hold to herself the growing child trying to push away; and finally (4) the desired but forbidden mother (Oedipus complex) whose presence is a lure to dangerous desire (castration complex)—persists in the hidden land of the adult's infant recollection and is sometimes even the greater force.†   (source)
  • …will appear in Chapter II in six subsections: "The Road of Trials," or the dangerous aspect of the gods z "The Meeting with the Goddess" (Magna Mater), or the bliss of infancy regained 3 "Woman as the Temptress," the realization and agony of Oedipus 4 "Atonement with the Father"5 "Apotheosis" 6 "The Ultimate Boon" The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from the standpoint of the…†   (source)
  • Many and many an Oedipus[523] arrives: he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.†   (source)
  • Carol was ready to say, "How about Bernard Shaw?" when he treacherously went on, "How would it be then to give a Greek drama—say 'Oedipus Tyrannus'?"†   (source)
  • It would have required the penetration of Oedipus or the Sphinx to have divined the irony the count concealed beneath these words, apparently uttered with the greatest politeness.†   (source)
  • And suppose he tackled me again with this logomachy, which might vainly have been set before ancient Oedipus.†   (source)
  • The pupils of his eyes, fixed steadfastly on blankness, were vaguely lit with an icy shine; his mouth had passed into the phase more or less imaginatively rendered in studies of Oedipus.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tulliver had a destiny as well as Oedipus, and in this case he might plead, like Oedipus, that his deed was inflicted on him rather than committed by him.†   (source)
  • …slept in the clasp of Zeus and merged in love
    and brought forth Heracles, rugged will and lion heart.
    And I saw Megara too, magnanimous Creon's daughter
    wed to the stalwart Heracles, the hero never daunted.
    And I saw the mother of Oedipus, beautiful Epicaste.
    What a monstrous thing she did, in all innocence—
    she married her own son ….
    who'd killed his father, then he married her!
    But the gods soon made it known to all mankind.
    So he in growing pain ruled on in beloved…†   (source)
  • Oedipus denounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to track out the criminal.†   (source)
  • DRAMATIS PERSONAE ANTIGONE and ISMENE—daughters of Oedipus and sisters of Polyneices and Eteocles.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS The knave methinks will still prevaricate.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS When with swift strides the stealthy plotter stalks I must be quick too with my counterplot.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Let the storm burst, my fixed resolve still holds, To learn my lineage, be it ne'er so low.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS And is he living still for me to see him?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Aye, if there be a third best, tell it too.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Ah me! what words to accost him can I find?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Thou shalt rue it Twice to repeat so gross a calumny.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Much, but my fear is touching her who lives.†   (source)
  • ] OEDIPUS Sirrah, what mak'st thou here?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Yes, from my cradle that dread brand I bore.†   (source)
  • ] MESSENGER My masters, tell me where the palace is Of Oedipus; or better, where's the king.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What? let me have it, stranger, from thy mouth.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS My savior? from what harm? what ailed me then?†   (source)
  • [Exit JOCASTA] CHORUS Why, Oedipus, why stung with passionate grief Hath the queen thus departed?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Why failed the seer to tell his story then?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS O King Apollo! may his joyous looks Be presage of the joyous news he brings!†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS How runs the oracle? thus far thy words Give me no ground for confidence or fear.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Lead me hence, then, I am willing.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Dare ye inquire concerning such a wretch?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Must I endure this fellow's insolence?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS But for thy prompting never had the seer Ascribed to me the death of Laius.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS A heaven-sent oracle of dread import.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Tell them, I would fain know all.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Ah me! ah me! all brought to pass, all true!†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS By violent hands was spirited away.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What were the pastures thou didst most frequent?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Nay, I will ne'er go near my parents more.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I know not thou wouldst utter folly, else Long hadst thou waited to be summoned here.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I will, for thou art more to me than these.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Offspring of endless Night, thou hast no power O'er me or any man who sees the sun.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS If thou dost hold a kinsman may be wronged, And no pains follow, thou art much to seek.†   (source)
  • ** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OEDIPUS TRILOGY **†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS No matter if I saved the commonwealth.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Softly, old man, rebuke him not; thy words Are more deserving chastisement than his.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Did any bandit dare so bold a stroke, Unless indeed he were suborned from Thebes?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Slave-born or one of Laius' own race?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Madam, dost know the man we sent to fetch?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Well argued; but no living man can hope To force the gods to speak against their will.†   (source)
  • [2] OEDIPUS What then, thou knowest, and yet willst not speak!†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Was he within his palace, or afield, Or traveling, when Laius met his fate?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS This much thou knowest and canst surely tell.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Did he at that time ever glance at me?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Didst thou or didst thou not advise that I Should call the priest?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Monster! thy silence would incense a flint.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Who was thy teacher? not methinks thy art.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS So I heard, But none has seen the man who saw him fall.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Oh speak, Withhold not, I adjure thee, if thou know'st, Thy knowledge.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What reason had he then to call me son?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I must obey, Though 'tis grievous.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt TEIRESIAS and OEDIPUS] CHORUS (Str.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS He is too cunning to commit himself, And makes a mouthpiece of a knavish seer.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Did the same prophet then pursue his craft?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS But was no search and inquisition made?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS A fact so plain I cannot well deny.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Then there Thou must have known yon man, at least by fame?†   (source)
  • ] OEDIPUS My wife, my queen, Jocasta, why hast thou Summoned me from my palace?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Thou didst: but I was misled by my fear.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Must I not fear my mother's marriage bed.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Yea, and it is that proves thee a false friend.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS And how long is it since these things befell?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS His will was set forth fully—to destroy The parricide, the scoundrel; and I am he.†   (source)
  • ] OEDIPUS Corinthian, stranger, I address thee first, Is this the man thou meanest!†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS A foundling or a purchased slave, this child?†   (source)
  • CHORUS To us it seems that both the seer and thou, O Oedipus, have spoken angry words.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Speak before all; the burden that I bear Is more for these my subjects than myself.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Who is this man, and what his news for me?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS So of some malady he died, poor man.†   (source)
  • How can I now assent when a crime is on Oedipus laid?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS The man here, having met him in past times….†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Dost know what grace thou cravest?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS And die thou shalt unless thou tell the truth.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Yes, lady; I have caught him practicing Against my royal person his vile arts.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What, did another find me, not thyself?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Think'st thou for aye unscathed to wag thy tongue?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What trouble can have hindered a full quest, When royalty had fallen thus miserably?†   (source)
  • JOCASTA What! is he dead, the sire of Oedipus?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Whom can he mean, the miscreant thus denounced?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Arrest the villain, seize and pinion him!†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Whence came it? was it thine, or given to thee?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS A vagrant shepherd journeying for hire?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Out on it, lady! why should one regard The Pythian hearth or birds that scream i' the air?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS This and none other is my constant dread.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Lady, I fear my tongue has overrun Discretion; therefore I would question him.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What led thee to explore those upland glades?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS My sire no more to me than one who is naught?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Say, friends, can any look or voice Or touch of love henceforth my heart rejoice?†   (source)
  • I had a mind to visit the high shrines, For Oedipus is overwrought, alarmed With terrors manifold.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS He points me out as Laius' murderer.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS And I of hearing, but I still must hear.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Ask me not yet; tell me the build and height Of Laius?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS O argue not that thou art not a rogue.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Leave me in peace and get thee gone.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS And now old man, look up and answer all I ask thee.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Declare it then and make thy meaning plain.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS O Zeus, what hast thou willed to do with me!†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I cannot; I must probe this matter home.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Ah, why remind me of that ancient sore?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Merope, stranger, wife of Polybus.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Yea, lest the god's word be fulfilled in me.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS We soon shall know; he's now in earshot range.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I heard as much, but never saw the man.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS [None but a fool would credit such as thou.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS From whom of these our townsmen, and what house?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Rob me not of these my children!†   (source)
  • Was ever man before afflicted thus, Like Oedipus.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I grant her freely all her heart desires.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Not answering what he asks about the child.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Bethink you that in seeking this ye seek In very sooth my death or banishment?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Came there no news, no fellow-traveler To give some clue that might be followed up?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS And who could stay his choler when he heard How insolently thou dost flout the State?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I would not have thee banished, no, but dead, That men may mark the wages envy reaps.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Question and prove me murderer if thou canst.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Yea, and the dread of slaying my own sire.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS With other men, but not with thee, for thou In ear, wit, eye, in everything art blind.†   (source)
  • Thy fall, O Oedipus, thy piteous fall Warns me none born of women blest to call.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS I but half caught thy meaning; say it again.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS 'tis a dread presentiment That in the end the seer will prove not blind.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Go, fetch me here the herd, and leave yon woman To glory in her pride of ancestry.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Haply he is at hand or in the house?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Yea, I am wroth, and will not stint my words, But speak my whole mind.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS For shame! no true-born Theban patriot Would thus withhold the word of prophecy.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Since come it must, thy duty is to tell me.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS What was thy business? how wast thou employed?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Tell me how long is it since Laius….†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Didst give this man the child of whom he asks?†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Methought I heard thee say that Laius Was murdered at the meeting of three roads.†   (source)
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