What Oedipus knows about the man he killed at a crossroads
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2019.v7.25847Keywords:
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, parricideAbstract
In this paper I try to demonstrate that in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus the central question – the parricide – is not definitely settled: from an epistemological point of view, it is not possible to assert that Oedipus killed Laius.
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