Oedipus the King

By (author): "Anthony Burgess, Sophocles"
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Publish Date: -450
Oedipus the King
ISBN0816606684
ISBN139780816606689
AsinOedipus the King
CharactersOedipus, Tiresias, Creon, Jocasta (Greek Mythology), Sphinx (Greek myt
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SeriesThe Theban Plays #1
The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.