... or pity, so aroused(4) 9, Mithos: The elaboration of a story.(5) In the play called Oedipus The King written by Sophocles a classic Greek play writer. [Oedipus means swollen feet. The Greeks pronounced it "oy-DEEP-us". Oed- is the same root as "oedema edema" (tissue swelling; The British preserve the initial "o-), while "-pus" is feet (hence "octopus", the eight-footed animal.)(6) Oedipus is born to parents King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. A ... with out you! Now the oracle Teiresias has gone it makes me think that any chance we had of Oedipus resolving this matter has come to an...

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