TY - BOOK AU - Edmunds,Lowell ED - Project Muse. TI - Oedipus : : The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues / SN - 9781421437200 PY - 2019/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Oedipus (Tale) KW - fast KW - Oedipe (Conte) KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1985, and in 1996; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License; Open Access N2 - The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, "Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature." Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72146/ ER -