CL 28 - Classical Mythology
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)

 

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