Aeschylus: Seven Against ThebesBloomsbury Academic, 02.08.2007 - 174 Seiten Accessible introductions to ancient tragedies. Each volume discusses |
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... Oedipus ' father Laius receives an oracle from Apollo three times that he must die without offspring if Thebes is to be saved ( Seven 745-9 ) . The birth of Oedipus thus represents Laius ' direct transgression against the oracle which ...
... Oedipus ' marriage to Jocasta ) happens years after the birth of Oedipus , when he has reached adulthood . Similarly the Curse on Oedipus is only revealed to him after he has fathered children with Jocasta . We do not know exactly how ...
... Oedipus who sowed the holy field of his mother where he had been nurtured and endured the bloodstained root he had sown ' at Seven 752-6 . Oedipus the King may well have been influenced by the Aeschylean Oedipus which preceded Seven ...
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Acknowledgements 78 | 7 |
City and Family | 23 |
Divine Forces and Religious Ritual | 38 |
Urheberrecht | |
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