CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Oedipus The King, Labdacus, Soter

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Thebes is compared to a wrecked ship, women aren"t giving birth to healthy children, there is a plague. He helped thebes become a better place after solving the riddle. If you remain straight/just the city will flourish. Dike leads to fertility in the polis. For those who practice violence, zeus ordains a punishment. Straight = dike, which ensures fertility and safety. Crooked = hubris, which leads to sterility and shipwreck. Oedipus walks w/ a limp, his grandpa"s name is labdacus, root = lambda. The psukhe of the hero has an unconscious part that drove oedipus to kill his father and have sex w/ his mother. There is also a conscious part that can be rational, domesticated, and in control of the other part, it is beast-like/savage. Katharsis is the cure for miasma, which derives from hubris. The purification of emotions like pity and fear = katharsis.

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