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Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King
Author: E. A. Sophocles
The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.
ISBN-13: 9780671499464
ISBN-10: 0671499467
Publication Date: 6/1972
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Publisher: Pocket Books
Book Type: Paperback
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