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Oedipus; Or, the Legend of a Conqueror

By Marie Delcourt

Oedipus; Or, the Legend of a Conqueror Books

Oedipus; Or, the Legend of a Conqueror

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Marie Delcourt's brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert's influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later. Delcourt studies the legend in its various aspects, six episodes that have equal weight and that stress the same themes: greatness, conquest, domination, the right to rule--all of them bound up with the idea of kingship. Together they form the biography of a Theban hero, the fullest account that has come down to us about the prehistory of sovereign power among the ancient Greeks.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
350
Release Date:
2020-08-31
Publication Date:
2020-08-01
Publisher:
Michigan State University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1611863511
ISBN13:
9781611863512
Weight:
503 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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