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    Oedipus (UK: /ˈiːdɪpəs/, also US: /ˈɛdə-/; Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus...
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    Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King,...
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    In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant...
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    Sophocles (redirect from Oedipus Cycle)
    a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the...
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    Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is the second-last of the three Theban plays of the...
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  • Oedipus Hex may refer to: Oedipus Hex (Bewitched), 1966 Oedipus Hex (CSI: NY), 2006 Oedipus Rex (disambiguation) Oedipus Tex, oratorio by P. D. Q. Bach...
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  • Look up Oedipus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oedipus was the mythical king of Thebes. Oedipus may also refer to: Oedipus (horse), an American Thoroughbred...
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    in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus. Creon had four sons and three daughters with his wife, Eurydice (sometimes...
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    Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate...
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  • Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe) is a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix...
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    a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She is the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother is either Jocasta or, in another...
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    Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology. The three full folio tomes of ornate illustrations and diagrams were published...
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  • Oedipus Wrecks may refer to: Oedipus Wrecks (Lois & Clark), an episode in the 3rd season of the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...
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  • Oedipus Orca is a 1977 Italian sexploitation-thriller directed by Eriprando Visconti. It is a sequel to La Orca, filmed the same/next year. Michele Placido:...
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  • Oedipus Rex is a play by Sophocles. Oedipus Rex may also refer to: Oedipus, a king of Thebes in Greek mythology Pseudoeurycea rex, a salamander species...
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    riddle. This deadly version of a sphinx appears in the myth and drama of Oedipus. In Egyptian mythology, in contrast, the sphinx is typically depicted as...
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    Ismene (section Oedipus Rex)
    romanized: Ismḗnē) is a Theban princess. She is the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, king of Thebes, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone...
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  • Oedipus Mayor (Spanish: Edipo alcalde) is a 1996 Colombian tragedy film, produced by Tomás Zapata and Jorge Sánchez, directed by Jorge Alí Triana. Set...
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  • Oedipus Tex is a satirical Western-themed oratorio by P. D. Q. Bach that follows the adventures of Oedipus Tex ("you may have heard of my brother Rex")...
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  • Hamlet and Oedipus is a study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in which the title character's inexplicable behaviours are subjected to investigation along...
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    consort of Thebes. She was the wife of first Laius, then of their son Oedipus, and both mother and grandmother of Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene...
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    The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) is a small New World monkey weighing less than 0.5 kg (1.1 lb). This New World monkey can live up to 24 years...
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  • Edward Hyson, known professionally as Oedipus, is an American radio personality. Oedipus's radio career began in 1975 as a DJ at the Massachusetts Institute...
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  • Oedipus Rex (Edipo re) is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written...
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  • Oedipus (1946–1978) was an American Champion Thoroughbred steeplechase racehorse. Sired by 1929's flat racing Horse of the Year Blue Larkspur and foaled...
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    story of Oedipus, which is better known through the play Oedipus Rex by the Athenian playwright, Sophocles. It is written in Latin. Oedipus is the king...
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  • Oedipus Schmoedipus is an album by the English musician Barry Adamson, released in 1996. Like Adamson's previous albums, Oedipus Schmoedipus was conceived...
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    mythologic character Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and sexually possessed his mother. Initially, Freud applied the Oedipus complex to the development...
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  • father complex. In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes a child's desire to have sexual relations with the parent...
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    Oedipus is an opera in two parts composed by Wolfgang Rihm to a German-language libretto that he based on the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and...
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