NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
How To Use King Oedipus In A Sentence
- Many years earlier Teiresias had warned the Theban king Oedipus that he was guilty of incest and patricide, but Oedipus had heeded his warning too late.
- The event in his life most frequently depicted in classical literature is neither parricide, nor incest, nor blinding, but exile - the least important event in King Oedipus, and therefore in Freud.
- In this paper 1 shall discuss only King Oedipus, the key play in Sophocles' trilogy.
- Like Freud, Stravinsky takes King Oedipus as his sole source, though the libretto by Jean Cocteau employs a dramaturgy often seen as pre-empting the alienation effects of Brechtian theatre.
