by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet · Editions Complexe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782870275108
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«Oedipe et ses mythes» is the essay by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, published by Editions Complexe in paperback (148 pages, in French).
Analysis of the Oedipus myth that discusses Freudian readings and proposes a new historical reading of the character. Drawing on «Edipo Rey» and «Edipo en Colono», by Sophocles, the authors place the tragedy in fifth-century BC Athens and explain what the myth meant then, as opposed to modern interpretations.
Published in 1988.
For an audience interested in Greek mythology, the history of ideas and the academic debate over interpretations of the myth.
