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Why Oedipus? -- Introducing Oedipus -- Key Themes -- Oedipus Before Tragedy -- Oedipus On Stage: Fifth-century Tragedy -- Latin Oedipus: Rome And The Middle Ages -- Oedipus Afterwards -- Rediscovery Of Sophocles: From The Renaissance To The Eighteenth Century -- The Inward Turn: Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries -- Conclusions And Continuations. Lowell Edmunds. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [157]-168) And Index.