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Suggestions for Further Reading on Oedipus: A Selected Bibliography Bachofen, J.J. 1926 Der Mythus von Orient und Occident: Eine Metaphysik der alten Welt, ed. Manfred Schroeter. Munich. Pp. 259- 271. Bachofen saw a three-stage evolution in the marriage laws of human society: the tellurian ("wilde, ehelose Geschlechtsverbindung"), the lunar, Le., matriarchal, and the solar, Le., patriarchal. The Oedipus legend represents progress into the second stage and, through the association of the legend with the Delphic Oracle, even into the third. Baum, P.F. 1916 "The Medieval Legend of Judas Iscariot." Publications of the Modern LAnguage Association of America, 31 = NS 24:481-632. The standard article on the subject. Berkowitz, Luci, and Theodore F. Brunner, eds. 1970 Oedipus Tyrannus. New York. This Norton critical edition includes a new translation of Sophocles' play accompanied by passages from Homer, Thucydides, and Euripides plus more than two dozen commentaries mostly by modern literary critics. Binder, Gerhard 1964 Die Aussetzung des KO'nigskindes: Kyros und Romulus. Beitrage zur klassischen Philologie 10. Meisenheim am Glan. Part I: Various cult and ritual practices in relation to the Cyrus legend in particular and exposure stories in general; the Romulus legend and the Lupercalia festival. Part II: Summaries, with references to primary and secondary sources, of 121 exposure stories. Cf. Redford. Breal, Michel 1863 Le Mythe d'Oedipe. Paris. The main statement of the solar-lunar interpretation of the Oedipus legend. 265 266 A Selected Bibliography Comparetti, Domenico 1867 Edipo e la Mitologia Comparata. Pisa. Opposes Breal; argues that the Oedipus legend is composed of common folklore elements. Constans, Leopold 1881 La ligende d'Oedipe. Paris. The first part deals with Oedipus in antiquity; the second and by far the longest part deals with Oedipus in the Middle Ages, especially the Roman de Thebes; and the third with literary treatments of the Oedipus legend from the Renaissance up to Constans' time. Daly, L.W. 1937 "Oedipus," in Real Encyclopaedie der classischen Alterrumswissenschafi, eds. A. Pauly, G. Wissowa, et al. (1893-). 34th half vol. Cols. 2103- 2117. A complete survey of the ancient evidence for the Oedipus legend. This article is continued and concluded in op. cit., suppl. vol. 7 (1940), cols. 769-786. Cf. Hofer for the other standard survey. Delcourt, Marie 1944 Oedipe au la legende du conquerant. Liege. A myth-ritual interpretation of the legend. Scapegoat rituals, riles de passage, and fertility rituals, with copious references to Frazer, Harrison, and Cook, are invoked to explain various elements of the legend. Dundes, Alan 1962 "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Grail." Literature and Psychology, 12:101-112. An application of the Raglan hero pattern to Arthurian material with a psychoanalytic interpretation of this Oedipal configuration . 1980 "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." In Alan Dundes, Interpreting Folklore. Bloomington. Pp. 223-261. The Raglan pattern is applied to the biography of Jesus and the pattern analyzed from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edmunds, Lowell 1976 "Oedipus in the Middle Ages." An/ike und Abendland, 25:140-155. Surveys the various ways in which Oedipus was known to the Middle Ages, including the "Planctus Oedipi." Emphasizes the lost preface to the medieval commentary on Statius' Thebaid as an important source for the Middle Ages' knowledge of Oedipus. Fischer, John L. 1966 "A Ponapean Oedipus Tale: Structural and Sociopsychological Analysis," Journal of American Folklore, 79:109-129. Breakdown of a Ponapean text into 121 linguistic-semantic segments followed by ethnographic and psychological glosses on the tale's Oedipal content. Hofer, O. 1908 "Oidipus," in Ausfiihrliches Lexikon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie, ed. W.H. Roscher, vol. 3, cols. 700-746. A complete survey of the ancient evidence for the Oedipus legend. Cf. Daly for the other standard survey. Kallich, Martin, Andrew MacLeish, and Gertrude Schoenbohm, eds. 1968 Oedipus: Myth and Drama. Indianapolis. Translations ofOedipus dramas by Sophocles, Dryden and Lee, and Hofinannsthal, with a wide range of A Selected Bibliography 267 selections from literary critical, anthropological and psychological writings on these dramas. Karve, Irawati 1950 "A Marathi Version of the Oedipus Story." Man, 50:71-72. Publishes a possible Indian cognate of the Oedipus-type tale. Discussed by Ramanujan in this casebook. de Kock, E.L. 1961 "The Sophoklean Oidipus and Its Antecedents." Acta Classica, 4:7-28. The most thorough survey in English of the pre-Sophoclean evidence for the Oedipus legend. Kohler, Reinhold 1870 "Zur Legende von Gregorius auf dem Steine." Germania, 15 =NR3: 284-291. Repr. in Kleinere Schriften zur erziihlende Dichtung des Mittelalters...

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