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Example sentences for: oedipus

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Were Oedipus alive today he might offer the same solution to the riddle.
Poet Muriel Rukeyser envisions Oedipus “old and blinded” asking the Sphinx why he hadn't recognized his own mother.
I've never met a psychiatrist clumsy enough to use the words "Oedipal conflict" with a patient, let alone to explain it by invoking Sophocles, but this dumb bit is worth it to watch De Niro blanch, shake his head in disgust at the thought of Oedipus and his mom, and exclaim, "Fuckin' Greece."
Hercules, after all, is not a tragic hero like Oedipus or Prometheus."
His mother was a martyr with Irish red hair--the stuff Oedipus complexes are made of.