Classical Mythology

THE THEBAN SAGA 379 Cadmus 6. Laius Pentheus 7. Oedipus (regency of Creon) Labdacus 8. Eteocles Lycus 9. Creon Zethus and Amphi ...

380 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Chthonius I r^ i Dirce m. Lycus Nycteus H-i I I Zeus m. Antiope Nycteis (m. Polydorus) ...

Cadmus m. Harmonia (^00 00) I Ino m. Athamas Learchus Autonoë m. Aristaeus Melicertes Actaeon Semele m.Zeus Agave m. Echion Dion ...

(^382) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS through his ankles. The servant entrusted with the task pitied the baby, and in- ste ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 383 middle of my head and struck me with the two-pronged goad. But he paid for this with interest; struck prompt ...

384 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 385 for the servant to whom Laius had given his infant son to be exposed on Mt. Cithaeron. This man was also the ...

(^386) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The horror of Oedipus' predicament is powerfully expressed in the stark di- alogue, ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 387 The Chorus, speaking for ordinary citizens of Thebes (or of any Greek city that honored the gods), is appall ...

(^388) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The drama begins with Oedipus, after years of wandering as an exile and beggar, comi ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 389 self before Theseus, the Chorus, and Oedipus, whose great speech in response is the most detailed defense of ...

(^390) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Polynices makes a self-serving speech, in which he describes the expedition that he ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 391 he is, and at peace with himself, leads him and the young women toward the place where his life will end. He ...

(^392) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS not ask to see what is not right for you to see, nor hear words that you should not ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 393 Oedipus Rex by Max Ernst (1891-1976); oil on canvas, 1922, 37 X 41 in. In this surrealist painting, Freudian ...

394 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS interpret the legend purely and solely in psychological terms. Nevertheless, psy- choan ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 395 Polybus and Merope of Corinth are his parents must reassure him that the mur- der of a fatherly figure who g ...

(^396) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Statius, whose epic, Thebaid, written in about A.D. 90, was widely read in Me- dieva ...

THE THEBAN SAGA 397 Hippomedon with a war-cry stands before the gates of Athena. ... It was no mean craftsman who placed this wo ...

(^398) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS top, he boasted that not even Zeus could keep him out, and for his blasphemy "Zeus," ...