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oedipus
/ˈɛdɪpəs/
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What does oedipus mean?
proper noun
- A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
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The closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.
Exner holds that the ancients conceived Oedipus not as we do; they found his misfortune horrible; we find it unpleasant.
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At the end of the preceding chapter we left the laborer at loggerheads with the law of division: how will this indefatigable Oedipus manage to solve this enigma?
The ancient public buildings of Orange, notably the colossal frontage of the theatre whither all the intellectual world once flocked to hear Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus," derive most of their material from these quarries.
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.