Oidipodeia
The Oidipodeia is a Cyclic epic from the 8th to 6th centuries BC. And comes from the Theban sagas . It has been ascribed to the Lakedaimon kinaithon , but its authorship is considered uncertain in more modern research. Only a few fragments and testimonies of the work have survived.
The Oidipodeia probably dealt in 6600 verses about the kidnapping of Haimons by the Sphinx and the liberation of Thebes from the Sphinx by Oedipus .
literature
- Erich Bethe : Theban hero songs. Epics of the Theban-Argive saga. S. Hirzel , Leipzig 1891, pp. 1–28. At Archive.org
- Lexicon of the Old World (LAW). Edited by C. Andresen u. a., Albatros, Düsseldorf 2001 (ND), ISBN 3-491-96036-3 .
Remarks
- ↑ Sabine Föllinger : Genosdependenzen: Studies on the work on the myth in Aeschylus. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, p. 145, note 74.
- ↑ Christos Tsagalis: Early Greek Epic Fragments I. Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 183f.
- ^ Gherardo Ugolini: Teiresias. Investigations into the figure of the seer Teiresias in mythical traditions and in tragedy. G. Narr, Tübingen 1995, p. 92.
- ↑ Christiane Zimmermann : The Antigone myth in ancient literature and art (= Classica Monacensia. Munich studies on classical philology. Volume 5). Narr, Tübingen 1993, p. 61