Found 499 results for "Oedipus (greek mythology)"
by Sophocles
The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.
by Edith Hamilton
THE GREEKS did not believe that the gods created the universe.
by Ingri Parin D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
IN OLDEN TIMES, when men still worshiped ugly idols, there lived in the land of Greece a folk of shepherds and herdsmen ...
by Sophocles
Ismene, sister of my blood and heart, See’st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfil The weird of Oedipus, a world of ...
by Sophocles
The place called Thebes lay in the central plain of Boeotia, part of the narrow tongue of land joining the Athenian coun...
by Sophocles
My children, scions of the ancient Cadmean line, what is the meaning of this thronging round my feet, this holding out o...
by Paul Landis, Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus
I ASK the gods deliverance from the toil
by Rachel Bowlby
A century after the arrival of Freud's Oedipus, it might seem that modern lives are very different from what they were t...