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Oedipus cycle

Myth & story

The Theban tale-chain of Oedipus, Antigone, and the city’s ruin. Not house-of-atreus’ Argive plot, and not every prophecy riddle alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Oedipus cycle appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias’ Description of Greece recounts the Theban Oedipus material among local monuments and genealogies — the Oedipus cycle as a visitor heard it. A named Theban tale-chain in that travel narrative, not house-of-atreus’ Argive plot and not Sophocles as a separate source id.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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