The Sphinx In The Oedipus Legend
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The Sphinx In The Oedipus Legend
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Author : Lowell Edmunds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Sphinx In The Oedipus Legend written by Lowell Edmunds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Folklore categories.
Oedipus
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Author : Sophocles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-02-13
Oedipus written by Sophocles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-13 with Drama categories.
"Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed." According to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new ruler, Oedipus, the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, to hunt down the perpetrator and bring salvation. He vows to succeed whatever the cost--and so begins an unstoppable pursuit of the truth through a harrowing labyrinth of fear and love.
Oedipus
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Author : Lowell Edmunds
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-11-22
Oedipus written by Lowell Edmunds and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-22 with Art categories.
As a volume in the Gods and Heroes series, this book explores a key figure in ancient myth incisively and accessibly, yet with enough scholarly detail to be an 'all-you-need-to-know' for lower level courses, a platform for further study at a more advanced level or as a reference book of key information for researchers/academics.
Favorite Greek Myths
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Author : Bob Blaisdell
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-02-29
Favorite Greek Myths written by Bob Blaisdell and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Adventures, calamities, and conquests abound in stirring tales about Pandora's box, King Midas and his golden touch, the dreaded Cyclops, Narcissus and Echo, and many other familiar figures.
Book Of The Sphinx
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Author : Willis Goth Regier
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-12-01
Book Of The Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.
Imagining The Self Constructing The Past
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Author : Meriem Pagès
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-23
Imagining The Self Constructing The Past written by Meriem Pagès and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-23 with Philosophy categories.
Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past celebrates the various ways in which the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are adapted, recollected, and represented in our own day and age. Most of the chapters fit broadly into one of three categories: namely, the representation of the self in medieval and early modern history and literature; the recollection and utilization of the past in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; and the role of the medieval and the early modern in our own society. Overall, the contributions to this volume bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
Tragic Agency In Classical Drama From Aeschylus To Voltaire
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Author : Paul Hammond
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-10-18
Tragic Agency In Classical Drama From Aeschylus To Voltaire written by Paul Hammond and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis charts the playwrights’ contrasting assumptions about agency and autonomy. In the second part, six plays by Corneille and Racine are discussed to show how the problem of agency and free will is explored in scenarios which show protagonists who are in thrall to their past, to their rulers, or to their own ideals.
Agenorid Myth In The Bibliotheca Of Pseudo Apollodorus
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Author : Johanna Astrid Michels
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-11-21
Agenorid Myth In The Bibliotheca Of Pseudo Apollodorus written by Johanna Astrid Michels and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of composition and organization by addressing structuring principles, narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date. In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.
Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus The King Annotated Worldwide Classics
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Author : Sophocles
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-03-13
Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus The King Annotated Worldwide Classics written by Sophocles and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-13 with Drama categories.
Oedipus, King of Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to ask advice of the oracle at Delphi, concerning a plague ravaging Thebes. Creon returns to report that the plague is the result of religious pollution, since the murderer of their former king, Laius, has never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for causing the plague.Oedipus summons the blind prophet Tiresias for help. When Tiresias arrives he claims to know the answers to Oedipus's questions, but refuses to speak, instead telling him to abandon his search. Oedipus is enraged by Tiresias' refusal, and verbally accuses him of complicity in Laius' murder. Outraged, Tiresias tells the king that Oedipus himself is the murderer ("You yourself are the criminal you seek"). Oedipus cannot see how this could be, and concludes that the prophet must have been paid off by Creon in an attempt to undermine him. The two argue vehemently, as Oedipus mocks Tiresias' lack of sight, and Tiresias in turn tells Oedipus that he himself is blind. Eventually Tiresias leaves, muttering darkly that when the murderer is discovered he shall be a native citizen of Thebes, brother and father to his own children, and son and husband to his own mother.
The Phoenician Women
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Author : Euripides
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Phoenician Women written by Euripides and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Drama categories.
Here, Peter Burian and Brian Swann recreate Euripides' The Phoenician Women, a play about the fateful history of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus, King of Thebes. Their lively translation of this controversial play reveals the cohesion and taut organization of a complex dramatic work. Through the use of dramatic, fast-paced poetry--almost cinematic it its rapidity of tempo and metaphorical vividness--Burian and Swann capture the original spirit of Euripides' drama about the deeply and disturbingly ironic convergence of free will and fate. Presented with a critical introduction, stage directions, a glossary of mythical Greek names and terms, and a commentary on difficult passages, this edition of The Phoenician Women makes a controversial tragedy accessible to the modern reader.