Oedipus Rex

Table of contents

• Biography
• Themes and Style of Sophocles
• Chronology of Important Dates
• Brief Summary: The Myth
• Synopsis
• Themes and Issues
• The Lesson of the Play
• Freud's Interpretation ("Oedipus Complex")
• Further Reading

More by Sophocles

• Oedipus, King of Thebes

Other Study Guides classics

• A Hero of our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
• Moses and Monotheism — Sigmund Freud
• Aeneid — Virgil
• Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
• Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
• Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope