*american english* —>
/ˈidᵻpəs/
/ˈɛdᵻpəs/
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*british english* —>
/ˈiːdᵻpəs/
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from ‘ancient greek’ —>
Οἰδίπους
Oidípous
(meaning “swollen foot”)
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(‘oedipus’ was a mythical greek king of ‘thebes’)
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(a ‘tragic hero’ in ‘greek mythology’, ‘oedipus’ accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father + marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his ‘city’ + ‘family’)
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“dumb ‘luck’?”
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(the story of ‘oedipus’ is the subject of sophocles’s tragedy oedipus the king, which was followed by oedipus at colonus and then antigone)
(together, these plays make up sophocles’s 3 ‘theban plays’)
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(‘oedipus’ represents 2 enduring themes of ‘greek myth’ + ‘drama’…)
- (the flawed nature of humanity and an individual’s role in the course of ‘destiny’ in a ‘harsh universe’)
- (in the most well-known version of the ‘myth’, ‘oedipus’ was born to ‘king laius’ + ‘queen jocasta’)
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(‘laius’ wished to thwart a prophecy, so he left ‘oedipus’ to die on a ‘mountainside’)
(however, the baby was found by ‘shepherds’ + raised by ‘king polybus’ + ‘queen merope’ as their own)
(‘oedipus’ learned from the ‘oracle’ at ‘delphi’ of the prophecy that he would end up killing his father + marrying his mother but, unaware of his ‘true parentage’, believed he was fated to murder ‘polybus’ + marry ‘merope’, so left for ‘thebes’)
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(on his way he met an older man + quarreled…)
(…and so ‘oedipus’ killed the ‘stranger’)
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“DOH!”
oh no!
‘slippy’
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😰😟😰
😟😰😟
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(continuing on to ‘thebes’, he found that the king of the city (‘laius’) had been recently killed, and that the city was at the mercy of the ‘sphinx’)
(‘oedipus’ answered the monster’s riddle correctly, defeating it + winning the throne of the ‘dead king’)
(and the hand in marriage of the king’s widow, and (unbeknownst to him) his mother ‘jocasta’)
(years later, to end a plague on ‘thebes’, ‘oedipus’ searched to find who had killed ‘laius’, and discovered that he himself was responsible)
(jocasta, upon realizing that she had married both her own ‘son’ + ‘her husband’s murderer’, hanged herself)
(‘oedipus’ then seized 2 pins from her dress + blinded himself with them)
(the legend of ‘oedipus’ has been retold in many versions, and was used by ‘sigmund freud’ to name and give ‘mythic precedent’ to the ‘oedipus complex’)
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