Crossword-Solution: OEDIPUS 7 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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LAIUS, slayer of 1 answer
Rex of classical tragedy 1 answer
Rex in the classics 1 answer
POLYNICES, father of 1 answer
Ode Pius reprinted in Greek (7) 1 answer
Namesake of a well-known complex. 1 answer
Mythical mother marrier 1 answer
Mythical Greek who killed his father and married his mother 1 answer
Literary character who says "How could I bear to see / When all my sight was horror everywhere?" 1 answer
Role for Laurence Olivier. 1 answer
King of classical tragedy 1 answer
Jocasta's son . . . and husband 1 answer
Jocasta's son 1 answer
Ismene's father 1 answer
Infamous mama's boy 1 answer
ISMENE, father of 1 answer
He solved the riddle of the Sphinx. 1 answer
He solved the Sphinx's Riddle 1 answer
Sophocles title character 1 answer
solver of riddles 1 answer
Well-known complex. 1 answer
Tragic king of Thebes 1 answer
Tragic Theban king 1 answer
Subject of Sophocles 1 answer
Sphinx riddle solver 1 answer
Sphinx bester 1 answer
Sort of complex 1 answer
He died at Colonus. 1 answer
Sophocles character for whom a Freudian complex is named 1 answer
Sophoclean protagonist 1 answer
Son of Laius and Jocasta. 1 answer
Son of Jocasta. 1 answer
Son and husband of Jocasta 1 answer
Solver of the Sphinx's riddle 1 answer
Solver of the Riddle of the Sphinx 1 answer
He answered the riddle of Sphinx. 1 answer
Greek hero complex 1 answer
Father of Antigone 1 answer
Exiled Theban 1 answer
ETEOCLES, father of 1 answer
Complex subject, perhaps 1 answer
Complex personality? 1 answer
Complex individual 1 answer
Antigone's father 1 answer
Adopted son of King Polybus 1 answer
A complex 1 answer
"_____ Rex" (Sophocles) 1 answer
"Seven Against Thebes" subject 1 answer
husband daughter ISMEME ANTIGONE 2 answers
JOCASTA, husband of 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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The closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Grim war and dread battle destroyed a part of them, some in the land of Cadmus at seven-gated Thebe when they fought for the flocks of Oedipus, and some, when it had brought them in ships over the great sea gulf to Troy for rich-haired Helen’s sake: there death’s end enshrouded a part of them.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Homer and Hesiod 2008
Our sense of the dignity of human nature is exalted by the simple recollection, that Isocrates 143 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides, at the first representation of the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides; and that his pupils Aeschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
Several of his plays have an unity of subject to which nothing is wanting; but he has not left us any production that should rival that boast of Ancient Greece in the conduct of a plot, the OEdipus Tyrannus, a piece in which each act rises upon the act before, like a tower that lifts its head story above story to the skies.
Thoughts on Man William Godwin 1996
OEdipus, half way to finding the word of the enigma, young Faust, regretting already the simple life, the life of the heart, I come back to you repentant, reconciled, O gentle deceiver!" THE ASCENDING EFFORT--1910 Much good paper has been lamentably wasted to prove that science has destroyed, that it is destroying, or, some day, may destroy poetry.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 2005

Quotes with OEDIPUS (3)

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
Roger Zelazny Sign of the Unicorn
As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life? Aristotle deals with a similar question in his analysis of tragedy. Tragedy, after all, is pretty gruesome. […] There's Sophocles's Oedipus, who blinds himself after learning that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Why would any…
Brandon W. Forbes Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive
Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. Strangely enough, I still had a lot of energy for this student-oriented part of the job. Rather, it was _books_ that no longer interested me, drama and fiction in particular. It was as though a priest, in midcareer, had come to doubt the reality of transubstantiation. I could still en…
Mary Rose O'Reilley The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
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