Contents
Preface, by Mark R. Anspach
Acknowledgments
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson, translated into English by Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Part One. The Ritual Background
Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual, by Walter Burkert
Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece, by Jan Bremmer
The Exposed Infant, by Marie Delcourt
Part Two. King and Victim
Imitating Oedipus, by Mark R. Anspach
Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, by René Girard
Excerpt from Sweet Violence, by Terry Eagleton
Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex, by Jean-Pierre Vernant
Oedipus as Pharmakos, by Helene Peet Foley
Part Three. Oedipus on Trial
Excerpt from Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, by Michel Foucault
The Murderers of Laius, by William Chase Greene
The Murderers of Laius, Again (Soph. OT 106–7), by Rick M. Newton
Who Killed Laius? by Karl Harshbarger
Lêistas Ephaske: Oedipus and Laius’ Many Murderers, by Sandor Goodhart
An Anonymous Namer: The Corinthian’s Testimony, by Frederick Ahl
Index