Books

Oedipus (characters)

This character appears in 264 books.


  1. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays (collective work)

    Prometheus Bound / The Suppliants / Seven Against Thebes / The Persian

    by Aeschylus

  2. Very Short Introductions: Book 111

    Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Alan Segal

  3. The Uses of Enchantment

    The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

    by Bruno Bettelheim

  4. Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus

    Introduction to Schizoanalysis

    by Gilles Deleuze

  5. Theban plays: Book 1

    Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex )

    by Sophocles

    Oedipus: King of Thebes

    Memorable Quotes by Oedipus:

    ““It’s mine alone, my destiny-I am Oedipus.” line 1497”

    ““…and lifting them, looking straight up into the points, he digs them down the sockets of his eyes, crying, You, you’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!” (lines1403-1406)”

    “Now my curse on the murderer. Whoever he is,a lone man unknown in his crimeor one among many, let that man drag outhis life in agony, step by painful step—”

  6. The Crimes of the Oedipodean Cycle

    by Henry Newpher Bowman

  7. The Seven Basic Plots

    Why We Tell Stories

    by Christopher Booker


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