Definition of Oedipus

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles.

Exact synonyms: King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Mythical Being

Definition of Oedipus

1. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. ¹

2. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of (Oedipus)) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oedipus

Odontaspis taurus
Odontoceti
Odontophorus
Odovacar
Odovakar
Odtaa
Odyssean
Odysseus
Odyssey
Oe
Oecanthus
Oecanthus fultoni
Oedipal complex
Oedipally
Oedipus
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus complexes
Oedogoniaceae
Oedogoniales
Oedogonium
Oehl's muscles
Oehler's symptom
Oekaki
Oenanthe
Oenanthe aquatica
Oenanthe crocata
Oengus
Oenothera

Literary usage of Oedipus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Thus oedipus grew up ignorant of his parentage, and, meeting Laïus in a ... The country was ravaged by a monster, the Sphinx; oedipus solved the riddle ..."

2. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh (1896)
"The existence of this feeling is proved by the whole course of the Oresteia; and it is no less prominent in Antigone's speech in the oedipus ..."

3. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1861)
"oedipus is an object of felicitation and envy in the eyes of men. ... In the oedipus at Colo- nus, we shall see whether, like Job, he in the end receives ..."

4. Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes by Henry Home Kames (1802)
"If, born at length Of his own child ; was oedipus to Hame, ... would own and pity oedipus. Again, in the fourth aft, the following prayer is put u;i for ..."

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