As a reward Œdipus received the great kingdom of Thebes and the hand of the widowed queen Jocasta in marriage.
Now the gods had decreed that Œdipus should murder his own father and marry his own mother, and by a curious chance this was precisely what he had done.
The One-eyed Polyphemus 108 Œdipus and the Sphinx.
In going along one of the flats, before we discovered the creek, Mr. Browne and I had chased a Dipus into a hollow log, and there secured it.
We hereabouts shot several new birds; and the dogs killed a very fine specimen of the Dipus of Mitchell, but, unfortunately, in the scuffle, they mangled it so much that we could not preserve it.
The veritable hero of his splendid Iliad is at first ignorant and obscure, seeking passionately like Œdipus to know himself.
As he spoke he began declaiming the passage from Sophocles’s Œdipus the King descriptive if that classic scene.
The case of Meleager assists to illustrate that of Œdipus and Epicaste.
He is forewarned by an oracle that any son he should beget would destroy him, and hence he caused the infant Œdipus to be exposed on Mount Cithanon.
A quarrel ensues from the insolence of attendants, and Œdipus kills Laius.
Another racks his brains as to why Œdipus was condemned by fate to perform such abominable deeds--killing his father, marrying his mother.
Suddenly it occurs to him: Œdipus was a passionate fellow, lacking all Christian gentleness--he even fell into an unbecoming rage when Tiresias called him a monster and the curse of the whole country.
My father is Œdipus the son of Laius; Jocasta daughter of Menœceus brought me forth; the Theban people call me Polynices.
But a thick cloud of shields glares around the city, the likeness of gory battle, bearing which destruction from the Furies to the children of Œdipus Mars shall quickly advance.
And while the renowned son of Œdipus was preparing to send me to the revered shrine, and to the altars of Phœbus, in the mean time the Argives marched against the city.
O ye Gods, may ye be averters of these ills, and grant to the children of Œdipus some means of agreement.
But after that the sons of the aged Œdipus had clad their limbs in brazen armor, they came and stood in the midst of the plain between the two armies, ready for the contest, and the fierceness of the single battle.
For this were the first thing, that not any of the family of Œdipus should be citizens, nor king of the territory, inasmuch as they are possessed by demons, and are they that will overthrow the city.
But at length came by the mission of the Pythian oracle Œdipus the unhappy to this land of Thebes, to us then indeed delighted, but again came woes.
And now the two sons of the aged Œdipus clad their bodies in an entire suit of brazen armor.
The gross development of sexuality and the Œdipus complex may seem improbable to him.
As we find that the Œdipus complex [Rather an attenuation, which occurs frequently, not merely in dream psychology, but also in modern mythology.
In so far as the father is perceived as an obstacle to the love towards the mother he must, in the elementary tendency, be killed to remove the obstacle, and there arises the murder impulse belonging to the Œdipus Complex.
Regression revives the Œdipus complex with its thoughts of incest, etc.
According to the observations of psychoanalysis there is a bit of Œdipus in every one of us.
This motive is found as self-punishment for incest, at the close of the Œdipus drama.
Regarded from the standpoint of the growing son, the intrusion represents the Œdipus motive (with the incest wish).
I refer to the so-called Œdipus complex that plays an important rôle in the dream life as also in myth and apparently, also in creative poetry.
The psychological connection results from the fact that those images on which the Œdipus complex is constructed appear calculated to produce an inefficiency in the erotic life.
We have regarded the story first from the point of view of the inefficiency of the hero, and have thereupon stumbled upon erotic relations, finally upon the Œdipus complex.
The Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophoklês was surpassed by the rival composition of Philoklês.
It is in the grove of the Eumenides, hard by this temple of Poseidon, that Sophoklês has laid the scene of his immortal drama, the Œdipus Koloneus.
Thus was the Sphinx destroyed; and, according to the promise of the proclamation, for this great service to the state dipus was immediately recompensed.
A natural discovery, first of all, connects dipus with the death of Laius.
Heaven and earth are silent for a generation; one might fancy that they are treacherously silent, in order that dipus may have time for building up to the clouds the pyramid of his mysterious offences.
Pagan records, older by two generations than the story of Troy, is that of dipus and his mysterious fate, which wrapt in ruin both himself and all his kindred.
For the present, dipus viewed himself as no criminal, but much rather as an injured man, who had simply used his natural powers of self-defence against an insolent aggressor.
The whole tragic fate of Œdipus and Electra took place within the narrow confines of the family, just as the child's fate lies wholly within the family boundaries.
Hence the Œdipus conflict is very characteristic of an infantile conflict, so also is the Electra conflict.
When I was at the great American Catholic University of Notre-Dame I heard that the students had given a performance of Œdipus the King, and Œdipus the King is forbidden in London.
In the Old Tragedy one could feel at the close the metaphysical comfort, without which the delight in tragedy cannot be explained at all; the conciliating tones from another world sound purest, perhaps, in the Œdipus at Colonus.
The sketch of the “Œdipus Rex,” is also completed.
Thereupon the Sphinx turned to stone, and Œdipus married the princess, and reigned many years, till there was a famine and pestilence, and the oracle was asked the cause.
Many years later Œdipus set out for the Delphic oracle, to ask who he was; but all the answer he received was that he must shun his native land, for he would be the slayer of his own father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dipus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
