Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• Laius, Chrysippus, and the Oracle against a Son
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (Pelops curse; Delphic warning; Labdacid doom)
• Birth and Exposure of Oedipus; Rearing by Polybus and Merope
  Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Cithaeron exposure; Corinthian fosterage)
• The Sphinx’s Riddle; Oedipus King; Marriage to Jocasta
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (riddle solved; throne and queen as prize)
• Plague at Thebes and the Discovery of the Truth (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus Tyrannus* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Blinding of Oedipus and Exile from Thebes
  Theban · Sophoclean (*OT* end) / Apollodorean (exile timing variants)
• Mutual Killing of Eteocles and Polynices
  Theban · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (fraternal duel)
• Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
  Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• Ismene: Fate Variants (Antigone’s Sister)
  Heroes — Theban / Oedipus’s daughters · Sophoclean survival vs. tragic / handbook death variants
• Oedipus Remains King at Thebes (Homeric Variant)
  Heroes — Theban / Homeric vs. tragic Oedipus · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (Epicaste); Oedipus continues to rule
• Jocasta’s Suicide (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
  Heroes — Theban / Oedipus · Attic tragic — Sophocles *OT* (Jocasta hangs herself when the truth is clear)

Places appearing with them

• Argive camp
• Corinth
• Crossroads
• Elis
• Field of the Seven
• Hades
• Jocasta’s chamber
• Mount Cithaeron
• Pausanias’s tomb-spot
• Phician hill
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Road into Thebes
• Roads of wandering
• Rock tomb
• Thebes
• Walls

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War