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... Oedipus becomes tyrant of Thebes because he answers the riddle of the Sphinx. The riddle is: What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? Oedipus defeats the Sphinx by guess- ing the answer correctly: humans. As babies, they crawl on hands and feet. If all...

... of clothing and the physical object to which they apply, the body. Understanding that the fundamental concern shared between King Lear and Oedipus is the nature of the aging human body, that is, the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle, Stallbyrass points out that Lear ends up doing the opposite of what he had...

...) represents fictive people doing fictive things that implicate their fictive bodies in a set of historically significant actions: Oedipus sees his crime and executes justice on himself; Hamlet sulks, acts up, acts out, playacts, and finally acts, all in a play about the challenges of taking signifying action...

..., such as the cru- elties suffered during the siege of Poitiers in 1566. Madeleine Des Roches’s published odes meditate on her personal experience of the ravages of war in her city by drawing on perceived parallels with ancient history and epic lit- erature—the patricide of Oedipus and the matricide...

.... xvi, 230 pp.; 10 color plates, 22 black-­and-­white illus. $27.95. Stolzenberg, Daniel. Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xi, 307 pp.; 42 figs. $50.00. Turner, Denys. Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait. New Haven, Conn.: Yale...

... 8 For similar rhetoric, see Lyndal Roper, “Will and Honour: Sex, Words, and Power in Augsburg Criminal Trials,” in Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 1994), 53–78. 9 Richard van...

... the battlefields of Statius’s Latin epic, the Thebaid — even, perhaps, the double source of Anelida and Arcite: “Stace, and after him Corynne” (21).25 Compounding these uncanny repeti- tions, we find in many of these narratives an added sense of the overlayering of different roles, of which Oedipus’s double...

... in itself but proceeds from a good intention.” 55 In his Dialogus inter Philosophum, Iudaeum et Christianum , he illustrates this proposition with reference to the story of Oedipus. 56 A set of twins, a boy and a girl, are separated at birth and don't know of each other's existence. As adults...

... of their own emotions and present a narra- tive of their psychic worlds in a particular way. Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion, 1500 1700 (London: Routledge, 1994), 207. 70 For a meticulous English edition of a complete German witch trial, see The Trial of Tempel Anneke...

.... Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 342. 38 On the animacy of objects, and the somatization of the spiritual which Protestantism sought to counter, see Lyndal Roper, Oedipus...

... Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 225. 71 Ibid., 195. 72 Qtd. in Fussner, Historical Revolution, 77. 73 For other discussions...