Oedipus the King

Full-Texts

• Sophocles. The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1887.  Perseus Digital Library
  

• Sophocles. Oedipus the King. translated by E. H. Plumptre. Vol. VIII, Part 5. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909-14. Bartleby.com

• Sophocles. Oedipus the King. Sophocles, Vol. I. Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Edited by T. E. Page and W. H. D. Rouse From the Loeb Library Edition. Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London. First published in 1912. Humanities Text Initiative
  
  

• Sophocles (495--406 BC) - Great Books Index
  

Resources

• Greek Mythology Link - Oedipus
  "The Greek Mythology Link is a new collection of the Greek myths written and published on line by Carlos Parada. The Greek Mythology Link contains texts, images, tables and maps. The mythical accounts are based exclusively on classical sources. ...The Greek Mythology Link is concerned with the creative, artistic, literary and inspiring aspects of the Greek Myths deriving from its tales. The network created by genealogy has been given particular attention, as well as some structural aspects, which partly derive from it. The information provided in this site is based on original sources."
  
  

• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
  "Didaskalia is a web-site and journal dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman theatre in performance, and to the legacy of ancient theatre. ...Didaskalia is an English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today. The name Didaskalia is taken from the inscriptions used to record the outcomes of drama and music festivals in Athens. The need for records of productions is greater today than it was in Athens, because there is more Greek and Roman drama performed in more parts of the world than there ever was in antiquity."

• Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes
  Based on Chapter 17 of Classical Myth. Third Edition, by Barry B. Powell. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall. 2001.

• Aristotle. Poetics.
  • Aristotle. Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 23, translated by W.H. Fyfe. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1932. Perseus Digital Library.
  • Poetics By Aristotle. Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by S. H. Butcher.
    MIT Internet Classics or Project Gutenberg Edition
    
    

 

Images

• Oedipus and the Sphinx. Side A. Classical; Attic Red Figure; Amphora. Attributed to the Achilles Painter ca. 450 B.C. - 440 B.C. Perseus Digital Library.
  

• Oedipus and the Sphinx Vase. 410 bc
  

• Oedipus Blinded by Himself
  From Lydgate's Fall of Princes, MS Harley 1766, ca. 1450.
  

• Oedipus and Antigone.
  Painting by E. Teschendorff (1823-?)
  

• Oedipus and the Sphinx.1864
  Gustave Moreau
  

• Farewell of Oedipus to the Corpses of His Wife and Sons.1871
  Edouard Toudouze
  

• Oedipus Damning His Son Polynices. 1883
  André-Marcel Baschet
  

• Detail of Oedipus figure
  1934 Drawing"previously unknown Picasso"
  

• Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres, 1978
  Francis Bacon
  

• Oedipus in Performance: 1881-1912
  

  • Oedipus as Evidence: The Theatrical Background to Freud's Oedipus Complex
    Richard Armstrong, Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston

• "oedipus and his bloody mess"
  

• Edipo re - film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  "History, myth and the marginal" By Mohamed El-Assyouti
  Al-Ahram Weekly. 13 - 19 May 1999. Issue No. 429

  
  

• Selected Images from the The Bridgeman Art Library MHC Campus Only

  • (For more images, go to Grove Dictionary of Art, click on Bridgeman link and search keyword "Oedipus".)

  • The Finding of Oedipus (oil on canvas)
    French School, (17th century)
    item # 93902
    

  • Oedipus cursing his son Polynices - "Go to Ruin, Spurned and Disowned by me.." (w/c)
    Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825)
    item # 27934
    

  • Oedipus and the Sphinx, c.1826 (oil on canvas)
    Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
    item # 53911
    

  • Oedipus and Antigone, 1828 (oil on canvas)
    Brodowski, Antoni (1784-1832)
    item # 133431
    

  • Oedipus and Antigone or The Plague of Thebes
    Jalabert, Charles Francois (1819-1901)
    item # 39312
    

  • The Question (The Sphinx) 1875 (pencil on paper)
    Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-82)
    item # 108184
    
    
    

  • Portrait bust of Sophocles (c.496-405 BC)
    copy of Greek 4th century BC original (marble)
    item # 85231

 

 

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