See also:

• OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs See also:

• FOOT

foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")  ' in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, son of Lalus, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes, and See also:

• JOCASTA

Jocasta (Iocaste) . Lalus, having been warned by an See also:

• ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

oracle that he would be killed by his son, ordered him to be exposed, with his feet pierced, immediately after his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth . Thus See also:

• OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Oedipus See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up ignorant of his parentage, and, See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting Lalus in a narrow way, quarrelled with him and slew him . The See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country was ravaged by a See also:

• MONSTER (Lat. monstrum, from root of monere, to warn; i.e. something terrible or portentous)
• MONSTER, GEORG, COUNT ZU (1776-1844)

monster, the See also:

• SPHINX (Gr. Q¢lyyea', to draw tight, squeeze)

Sphinx; Oedipus solved the riddle which it proposed to its victims, freed the country, and married- his own See also:

• MOTHER

mother . In the Odyssey it is said that the gods disclosed the impiety . Epicaste (as Jocasta is called in See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer) hanged herself, and Oedipus lived as king in Thebes tormented by the See also:

• ERINYES (Lat. Furiae)

Erinyes of his mother . In the tragic poets the See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale takes a different See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . Oedipus fulfils an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient prophecy in killing his See also:

• FATHER

father; he is the See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument in the hands of See also:

• FATE

fate . The further treatment of the tale by See also:

• AESCHYLUS (525–456 B.c.)

Aeschylus is unknown . See also:

• SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles describes in his Oedipus Tyrannus how Oedipus was resolved to pursue to the end the See also:

• MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery of the See also:

• DEATH

death of LaIus, and thus unravelled the dark tale, and in horror put out his own eyes . The sequel of the tale is told in the Oedipus Coloneus . Banished by his sons, he is tended by the loving care of his daughters .

He comes to See also:

• ATTICA

Attica and See also:

• DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)

dies in the See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

grove of the See also:

• EUMENIDES (from Gr. evµevtits, kindly; di, well, and jAvos, disposition)

Eumenides at Colonus, in his death welcomed and pardoned by the fate which had pursued him throughout his See also:

• LIFE

life . In addition to the two tragedies of Sophocles, the legend formed the subject of a trilogy by Aeschylus, of which only the Seven against Thebes is extant; of the Phoenissae of See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides; and of the Oedipus and Phoenissae of See also:

• SENECA

Seneca . See A . Miler's exhaustive See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in See also:

• ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologic; F . W . See also:

• SCHNEIDEWIN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1810—1856)

Schneidewin, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage von Oedipus (1852); D . Cornparetti, Edipo e la mitologia comparata (1867); M . Brea], " Le Mythe d' Edipe," in Melanges de mythologie (1878), who explains Oedipus as a personification of See also:

• LIGHT

light, and his See also:

• BLINDING

blinding as the disappearance of the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun at the end of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day; J . Paulson in Eranos . Acta philologica Suecana, i, (See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala, 1896) places the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home of the legend in See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian Thebes, and identifies Oedipus with the Egyptian See also:

• GOD

god See also:

• SETH
• SETH (Egyptian Set, Sth~~~{{{or Sts)
• SETH (I* according to Dillmann, " setting " or " slip "; Septuagint, Philo and New Testament, fie, but r Chron. i. 1 Ells in A ; Josephus, EfjOor, Vulg. Seth)

Seth, represented as the See also:

• HIPPOPOTAMUS (" river-horse," Gr. lames, horse and aoraµbs, river)

hippopotamus " with swollen See also:

• FOOT

foot," which was said to kill its father in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to take its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place with the mother . 0 . See also:

• CRUSIUS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST (1715–1775)

Crusius (Beitrage zur griechischen Mythologie, 1886, p .

21) See also:

• SEES

sees in the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage of Oedipus with his mother an agrarian myth (with See also:

• SPECIAL

special reference to Oed . See also:

• TYR

Tyr . 1497), while See also:

• HOFER, ANDREAS (1767-181o)

Hofer (in Roscher's Lexikon) suggests that the episodes of the See also:

• MURDER

murder of his father and of his marriage are reminiscences of the overthrow of Cronus by See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus and of the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of Zeus with his own See also:

• SISTER

sister . See also:

• MEDIEVAL

Medieval Legends.—In the See also:

• GOLDEN

Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century) and the Mystere de la See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

Passion of See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

Michel (15th century) and Arnoul Greban (15th century), the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of Oedipus is associated with the name of Judas . The See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea is the same as in the classical See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account . The Judas legend, however, never really became popular, whereas that of Oedipus was handed down both orally and in written See also:

• NATIONAL

national tales (Albanian, Finnish, Cypriote) . One incident (the See also:

• INCEST (Lat. incestus, unchaste)

incest unwittingly committed) frequently recurs in connexion with the life of See also:

• GREGORY
• GREGORY (Gregorius)
• GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
• GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
• GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
• GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
• GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)

Gregory the See also:

• GREAT

Great . The Theban legend, which reached its fullest development in the Thebais of See also:

• STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS (c. A.D. 45-96)

Statius and in Seneca, reappeared in the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman de Thebes (the See also:

• WORK

work of an unknown imitator of See also:

• BENOIT, PETER LEONARD LEOPOLD (1834—1901)

Benoit de Sainte-More) . Oedipus is also the subject of an See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous medieval See also:

• ROMANCE

romance (15th century), Le Roman d' Edipus, fils de Layus, in which the sphinx is depicted as a cunning and ferocious See also:

• GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant . The Oedipus legend was handed down to the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of the See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance by the Roman and its imitations, which then See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into oblivion . Even to the See also:

• PRESENT

present day the legend has 1 It is probable that the story of the piercing of his feet is a subsequent invention to explain the name, or is due to a false See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology (from otais), othiiroes in reality meaning the " See also:

• WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876)
• WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900)

wise " (from oIha), chiefly in reference to his having solved the riddle, the syllable -revs having no significance . survived amongst the See also:

• MODERN

modern Greeks, without any traces of the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity (B .

See also:

• SCHMIDT, H
• SCHMIDT, HEINRICH JULIAN (1818-1886)
• SCHMIDT, KARL VON (1817-1875)
• SCHMIDT, WILHELM ADOLF (1812-1887)

Schmidt, Griechische Marchen, 1877) . The See also:

• WORKS

works of the ancient tragedians (especially Seneca, in preference to the Greek) came into See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue, and were slavishly followed by See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian imitators down to the 17th century . See L . See also:

• CONSTANS, JEAN ANTOINE ERNEST (1833– )

Constans, La Legende d'CEdipe clans l'antiquite, au moyen See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, et dans See also:

• LES

les temps modernes (1881); D . See also:

• COMPARETTI, DOMENICO (1835- )

Comparetti's Edipo and See also:

• JEBB, JOHN (1736–1786)
• JEBB, SIR RICHARD CLAVERHOTJSE (1841–1905)

Jebb's introduction for the Oedipus of See also:

• DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

Dryden, See also:

• CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606–1684)
• CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709)

Corneille and See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire; A . Heintze, Gregorius auf dem Steine, der mittelalterliche Oedipus (progr., See also:

• STOLP, or STOLPE

Stolp, 1897); V . Diederichs, Russische Verwandte der Legende von Gregor auf dem See also:

• STEIN, CHARLOTTE VON (1742-1827)
• STEIN, HEINRICH FRIEDRICH KARL, BARON VOM

Stein and der Sage von Judas Ischariot," in Russische Revue (188o); S . Novakovitch, " Die Oedipussage in der siidslavischen Volksdichtung," in Archiv See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur slavische Philologie xi . (1888) .