CL 28 - Classical Mythology

Lectures 15/16 - The House of Cadmus

Oedipus, king of Thebes
Jocasta, his wife and birth mother
Laius, former king of Thebes, Jocasta's husband, Oedipus's father
Pelops
Chrysippus
Antigone
Ismene
Eteocles
Polynices
Creon, Jocasta's brother
Euphorbus
Polybus of Corinth, Oedipus's foster father
Dorian Merope, his foster mother
Tiresias
Adrastus
Theseus, Greek hero, ruler of Athens
Cadmus, founder of Thebes
Spartoi
Sphinx
Agenor
Europa
Electra
Furies

autochthonous
apotheosis
miasma 

Thebes, Boeotia
Tyre, Phoenicia
Argos

Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.)
Oedipus the King or Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Images

• Euphorbus and Oedipus. Attic Red-figure amphora by the Achilles Painter. The shepherd Euphorbus with the child Oedipus. Ca. 450 BC. From Vulci.
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• Oedipus and Sphinx. Attic Red-figure kylix by Douris. Detail of tondo: Oedipus, dressed as a traveller (hat, staff), seated before the Sphinx, who is perched atop a short Ionic column. By the Oedipus painter. From Vulci. Vatican Museums. Slide Library. Boardman, John. Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period. Thames and Hudson, Ltd; London, 1975. #301.2; p. 246.
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• Kadmos / Cadmus slays the dragon. Post-classical illustration, late 15th c., from an illuminated version of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Moncrieff, A.R. Hope. A Treasury of Classical Mythology. Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1992. p. 88
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• Kadmos / Cadmus sows the dragon's teeth. Post-classical illustration, late 15th c., from an illuminated version of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Moncrieff, A.R. Hope. A Treasury of Classical Mythology. Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1992. p. 89
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• Europa and Zeus (as bull). Attic Red-figure bell krater by the Berlin Painter, 500-490. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmer Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate XXXV

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