Teiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus is the murderer he seeks. That Oedipus killed King Laius and the resulting plague is due to his trangressions. Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels ...

Edinburgh International Festival director Nicola Benedetti conceives of her 2024 programme as a series of “rituals that unite us”. Scottish Opera’s production of Igor Stravinsky and Jean Cocteau’s ...

Those who witnessed the 1881 production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex can now see what eventually happened to the King in the play's sequel, Oedipus Coloneus, the last of the dramatist's seven extant ...

The aged, self-blinded and self-exiled former king Oedipus, guided by his loyal daughter, finds himself in Colonus, a holy ...

The king has been portrayed as a proto-Christian ... (Freud’s diagnosis: Akhenaten was oedipal, almost a thousand years before Oedipus.) Archaeologists always tried to resist such ...

Poor Oedipus leads a life doomed by the Gods. Abandoned to die by his father King Laius of Thebes, in order to thwart a prophecy, Oedipus is found by shepherds and raised by foster-parents ...

Lesson 4 'Oedipus the King: An Introduction to Greek Drama' A classroom reading exercise based on 'Oedipus Rex' by the playwright Sophocles, designed to introduce the origins of drama and such ...

Immersive opera such as this can be tricky to pull off, but the magic of Roxana Haines’s new production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex lies in its simplicity, letting the material organically weave ...

The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist ...

Jocasta has been questioned by Oedipus for details on the death of King Laius. When she asks what burden Oedipus is carrying and to share his information, this is his reply. A curse has taken a ...