Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A king of Thebes who was mistakenly killed by his own son, Oedipus.
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- noun (Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus
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Examples
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1241: "Laius," she cried, and called her husband dead
Oedipus the King Sophocles 1894
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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After Laius learns from an oracle that "he is doomed/To perish by the hand of his own son," he binds tightly together with a pin the feet of the infant Oedipus and orders Jocasta to kill the infant.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The protagonist of the tragedy is the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The protagonist of the tragedy is the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Alfaro's idea is that Jocasta is the wife of gangland kingpin Laius David Anzuelo, who orders the murder of the infant Oedipus after a seer prophesies the son's murder of the father.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth Peter Marks 2011
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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