| Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus. |
| Put a modern cinemagoer in front of an ancient staging of Oedipus Rex, and they could easily follow it. |
| Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him. |
| Iokaste sends for Oedipus and instructs the Corinthian to inform him of the news. |
| The Oedipus complex is the psychoanalytic term everyone knows, and the ideas behind it were first mooted in 1899's The Interpretation of Dreams. |
| An unavenged murder could in extreme cases cause barrenness and crop failure, as in Sophocles ' Oedipus the King. |
