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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 980-983


nanWith no assured foreknowledge, be afraid? Best live a careless life from hand to mouth. This wedlock with thy mother fear not thou. How oft it chances that in dreams a man Has wed his mother! He who least regards Such brainsick phantasies lives most at ease. OIDIPUS: I should have shared in full thy confidence, Were not my mother living; since she lives Though half convinced I still must live in dread. JOCASTA: And yet thy sire's death lights out darkness much. OIDIPUS: Much, but my fear is touching her who lives. MESSENGER: Who may this woman be whom thus you fear? OIDIPUS: Merope, stranger, wife of Polybus. MESSENGER: And what of her can cause you any fear? OIDIPUS: A heaven-sent oracle of dread import. MESSENGER: A mystery, or may a stranger hear it? OIDIPUS: Aye, 'tis no secret. Loxias once foretold That I should mate with mine own mother, and shed With my own hands the blood of my own sire. Hence Corinth was for many a year to me


nanBut fear not that you will wed your mother. Many men before now have slept with their mothers in dreams. But he to whom these things are as though nothing bears his life most easily. Oedipu


nanBut fear not that you will wed your mother. Many men before now have slept with their mothers in dreams. But he to whom these things are as though nothing bears his life most easily. Oedipu


nanBut fear not that you will wed your mother. Many men before now have slept with their mothers in dreams. But he to whom these things are as though nothing bears his life most easily. Oedipu


nanBut fear not that you will wed your mother. Many men before now have slept with their mothers in dreams. But he to whom these things are as though nothing bears his life most easily. Oedipu


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

22 results
1. Homer, Odyssey, 19.559-19.569 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 275, 420-421, 274 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

274. πότερα δʼ ὀνείρων φάσματʼ εὐπιθῆ σέβεις; Κλυταιμήστρα 274. Haply thou flattering shows of dreams respectest? KLUTAIMNESTRA.
3. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 33-43, 523-552, 32 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

32. τορὸς δὲ Φοῖβος ὀρθόθριξ 32. For with a hair-raising shriek, Terror, the diviner of dreams for our house, breathing wrath out of sleep, uttered a cry of terror in the dead of night from the heart of the palace
4. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 101-104, 94-100 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

100. παθοῦσα δʼ οὕτω δεινὰ πρὸς τῶν φιλτάτων 100. And yet, although I have suffered cruelly in this way from my nearest kin, no divine power is angry on my behalf, slaughtered as I have been by the hands of a matricide. See these gashes in my heart, and from where they came! For the sleeping mind has clear vision
5. Aeschylus, Persians, 176-200, 205-210, 221, 230, 175 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

175. εὐμενεῖς γὰρ ὄντας ἡμᾶς τῶνδε συμβούλους καλεῖς. Ἄτοσσα 175. For we whom you summon as counsellors in these matters are well disposed towards you and your interests. Atossa
6. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 646-673, 645 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

645. αἰεὶ γὰρ ὄψεις ἔννυχοι πωλεύμεναι 645. For visions of the night, always haunting my maiden chamber, sought to beguile me with seductive words, saying: q type=
7. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 710-711, 709 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

709. ἐξέζεσεν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα· 709. Yes, the curses of Oedipus have made it seethe in fury.
8. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, 885-895, 884 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

884. ὁλκὴ γὰρ οὔτοι πλόκαμον οὐδάμʼ ἅζεται. Χορός
9. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1332-1344, 1331 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1331. ὦ νυκτὸς κελαινοφαὴς
10. Euripides, Alcestis, 355, 357, 354 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Euripides, Hecuba, 10-19, 2, 20-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-59, 6, 60-65, 68-69, 7, 70-76, 8, 84, 87-89, 9, 90-91, 93-95, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. ̔́Ηκω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καὶ σκότου πύλας 1. I have come from out of the charnel-house and gates of gloom, where Hades dwells apart from gods, I Polydorus, a son of Hecuba, the daughter of Cisseus, and of Priam. Now my father, when Phrygia ’s capital
12. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 43-56, 569, 57, 570-575, 58-60, 42 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

13. Euripides, Orestes, 619-620, 618 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

14. Euripides, Rhesus, 781-789, 780 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

15. Herodotus, Histories, 6.107.1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

16. Sophocles, Electra, 411, 417-425, 431-438, 449-452, 459, 466, 472-501, 410 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

17. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 982-983, 981 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

18. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 4.101-4.102 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

4.101. Now of land animals, the swine is confessed to be the nicest of all meats by those who eat it, and of all aquatic animals the most delicate are the fish which have no scales; and Moses is above all other men skilful in training and inuring persons of a good natural disposition to the practice of virtue by frugality and abstinence, endeavouring to remove costly luxury from their characters 4.102. at the same time not approving of unnecessary rigour, like the lawgiver of Lacedaemon, nor undue effeminacy, like the man who taught the Ionians and the Sybarites lessons of luxury and license, but keeping a middle path between the two courses, so that he has relaxed what was over strict, and tightened what was too loose, mingling the excesses which are found at each extremity with moderation, which lies between the two, so as to produce an irreproachable harmony and consistency of life, on which account he has laid down not carelessly, but with minute particularity, what we are to use and what to avoid.
19. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, 1.78-1.80, 4.39, 5.2, 5.63, 5.82 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

20. Plutarch, Julius Caesar, 32.9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

21. Suetonius, Iulius, 7.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

22. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 51.44-51.45 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschylus, and dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
antigone (sophocles), and seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
anxiety, and dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
anxiety dreams and nightmares, greek tragedy Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 385
anxiety dreams and nightmares, uncharacteristic behaviour Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 191
anxiety dreams and nightmares, voices Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130
anxiety dreams and nightmares Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130, 165, 191, 384, 385
chrysothemis, and a dream Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
cithaeron, and oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 512
clytemnestra (sophocles), dream of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
deianira, dream of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
destiny, of heracles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
divine visits Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 384
dream commands, difficult Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
dream figures Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 385
dream imagery, bizarre, surreal Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165, 191
dream imagery, day-to-day objects/realistic scenes Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130
dream imagery, sexual Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 191
dream imagery, transgressive, taboo-breaking Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165, 191
dream imagery, uncharacteristic behaviour Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 191
dreams, as messages Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
dreams and visions, ambiguous Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
dreams and visions, deixis, anxious state Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130, 165, 191
dreams and visions, disturbing Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130, 165, 191
dreams and visions, examples, comedy Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130
dreams and visions, examples, tragedy Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130, 384, 385
dreams and visions, form criticism/classification, message dreams Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130
dreams and visions, form criticism/classification, symbolic dreams Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 130
dreams and visions, participatory Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
electra, and a dream Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
electra (sophocles), dream in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
episodes, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 511, 512
fear, and dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
fear, of oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 511, 512
gods, and humans Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
heracles, and a dream Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
hercules on oeta (seneca) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
humans, and the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
information, from the outside, by seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
jocasta (epicaste), and the oracle Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
natural dreaming, hunger Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
oedipus, and the oracle Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 511, 512
oedipus complex Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
oedipus the king (sophocles), and seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
oedipus the king (sophocles), and the oracle Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 511, 512
oracle, and a dream Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388
philter, from deianira Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
sacrifice, apotropaic Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
stasima, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 511, 512
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 511, 512
uncertainty, about actions, decisions, destiny etc. Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
uncertainty, anxiety and doubt' Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 165
women of trachis, the (sophocles), and seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
women of trachis, the (sophocles), dream in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 388