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The theatre of Apollo : divine justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King / R. Drew Griffith.

Oedipus and the Sphinx : the threshold myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau / Almut-Barbara Renger ; translation by Duncan Alexander Smart and David Rice, with John T. Hamilton.

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Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.

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The theatre of Apollo : divine justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King / R. Drew Griffith.

Oedipus and the Sphinx : the threshold myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau / Almut-Barbara Renger ; translation by Duncan Alexander Smart and David Rice, with John T. Hamilton.