Found inside – Page 180After their anxiety and helplessness, their fantasizing of his presence in his absence, his physical (physical) appearance before them with its attendant ... Found inside – Page 97This cruel plot will enable Thebes to reap the benefit of Oedipus' physical presence while protecting the city from actual contact with the pariah. Found inside – Page 67Oedipus then continues to describe the name as slander ( óneidos ) , not as a description of a physical deformity . Throughout this tragedy óneidos and its ... Found insideThe second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Found inside – Page 44In other words, the messenger's description seems to make clear the identity of ... the physical features of the 'other' contemporary cult of Oedipus on the ... This collection of short stories contains, among others, 'My Oedipus Complex', 'The Genius', 'The Study of History', 'First Confession', 'The Paragon', and 'Don Juan's Temptation'. Found insideIn this landmark book, J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Found inside – Page 43In the Iliad, the soldier Thersites is mocked and abused for his ugly appearance; indeed, his physical appearance marks him as the reverse of the Homeric ... Found inside – Page 276Its appearance marks the end of summer and is, according to Hesiod (WD 610), ... and typically impatient, Oedipus threatens physical harm to the old man so ... Found inside – Page 73In the first scene, the physical description of the mouse—"a little white mouse" ... 30)—corresponds quite closely to two traits of the infant Julian: "his ... This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Found inside – Page 161With this very literal physical description of fear cf. Homer's description of Agamemnon's anger : μένεος δε μέγα φρένες αμφι μέλαιναι | πίμπλαντ ( ο ) ( A 103 sq . ) . 154 sq . The order of the thought is αμφί σοί , ιηιε Δ . Π . , αζόμενος κτε . Found inside – Page xviiiBecause Oedipus is physically incapable of doing this himself, Ismene volunteers to act on his behalf (507–509): I'll go. You stay and guard our father well ... Found inside – Page 184This is not to denigrate Oedipus's physical strength. After all, he must have been powerful to have single-handedly killed Laius and his retinue. This is the chapter that Sophocles never wrote, the redemptive passage of the fallen, blinded king to his final––this time glorious––encounter with destiny. Found inside – Page 145The second episode stages the quarrel between Oedipus and Creon, ... At these details Oedipus asks tremblingly for a physical description of Laius and of ... Found insideThree tragedies recount the downfall of Oedipus, his death in exile, and the actions by his daughter Antigone following his death. Found inside – Page 324Oedipus' physical transformation from weakness back to strength bears out Nietzsche's observations concerning the dialectics of activity and passivity in ... Found inside – Page 21... most important features of the illness and offer the clues to its healing. ... What we lack is a fully developed theoretical account of how the physical ... Found inside – Page 74To appreciate that association , we first need to focus on Oediupus ' primary physical features . The only information we are given about Oedipus ' physical appearance is that he is lame . Sophocles ' explanation for his lameness is that ... Found inside – Page 91Such questions do not apply only to physical attributes but extend over the whole range of human characteristics . Intellectual and emotional ... Found inside – Page 17Within three days of that son's birth however, Jocasta tells Oedipus that Laius ... Oedipus then asks about Laius's age and physical appearance and is told ... Found inside – Page 138... 457–46, 821–822 and 976) Yeats gives it an unexpectedly physical description when he comes to the chorus asking 'how have the furrows ploughed by your ... Identifying the story as a threshold myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known—Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account of this mythic encounter and how it deals ... Found insideThe story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music. Found inside – Page 10most part biologically trivial traits, drawn from a wide continuum of physical features and valorized only by the social arrangements we have made for ... This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers. Found insideBut The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient world are often skewed. Found inside – Page 60the entrance of sacred knowledge, the Sphinx, instead of Oedipus, is the one that ... Oedipus' challenge of the Sphinx represents both physical and symbolic ... Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor. Found inside – Page 79Early in both plays, however, infaustus is used to describe Oedipus (cf. ... to cover the misery of Oedipus' physical circumstances, his lack of favour with ... Found inside – Page 43Neither of them relates this question to Oedipus' physical appearance, although Jebb, in his general introduction, describes his face as follows: 'the ... Found inside – Page 11In a similar vein , consider Jebb's description of Oedipus when he first enters the orchestra ( Introduction , xiii ) : He is in the ... we should appreciate that Jebb has found clues in the text to Oedipus ' physical appearance and the effect it has on ... Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Found inside – Page 222... so in Oedipus Seneca gives not only a physical description of plague-stricken Thebes, but a mental-emotional description of Oedipus (1–81). Found inside – Page 211The New Hero at Colonus The chief appeal of Oedipus at Colonus (OC)1 lies, arguably, in features which we do not generally think of as characteristic of ... Found inside – Page 118However, despite these many differences, both books have remarkably similar themes of physical and allegorical blindness. The basic story of Oedipus Rex is ... This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface, and a new epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade. Found inside – Page 63They are not mimetic in the same sense as descriptions of the stage ... no one can represent himself to Oedipus except in words or by physical contact . Found insideThis 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at all ages. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle. Found inside – Page 19Nothing here indicates that Oedipus is lame or physically handicapped by his old wound . Having never seen a production where Sophocles ' Oedipus limps ... Found inside – Page 62tionship of the body's mediating function with respect to Oedipus's kingly subjectivity. Either his “crippling” results in an insigni‹cant physical ... 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