Oedipus : the ancient legend and its later analogues
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TextBaltimore, MD Johns Hopkins University Press c1985Description: xxii, 242p.; bibliogs.; indicesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801824907
- GR75.O3 E36 1985
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Introduction. Ancient sources for the Oedipus legend. Texts of the analogues. 1 Medieval Europe and the Near East. 2 Modern Europe (except Slavic). 3 Slavic. 4 Near East, Asia, Africa, Western Hemisphere. Biibliographies. 1 The ancient Oedipus legend. 2 Medieval analogues to the Oedipus legend. 3 Modern analogues to the Oedipus legend. 4 Published sources of the analogues in the collection
'...Oedipus continues to reign, as he has done since the rediscovery of Sophocles and Aristotle in the early sixteenth century. At that time, its own merits and the authority of Aristotle, who praised the perfection of its plot in the Poetics, combined to confer on Oedipus the King a unique and lasting prestige. Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream....' --Introduction
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