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On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex
ON the last occasion when I had the misfortune to examine in Honour Moderations at Oxford I set a question on the Oedipus Rex, which was among the books prescribed for general reading. My question was ‘In what sense, if in any, does the Oedipus Rex attempt to justify the ways of God to man?’ It was an optional question; there were plenty of alternatives. But the candidates evidently considered it a gift: nearly all of them attempted it. When I came to sort out the answers I found that they fell into three groups.
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Dodds, E. R. “On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex.” Greece and Rome, vol. I, no. 1, Cambridge University Press, 1966, pp. 45–49, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500016144.
The Oracles Are Dumb or Cheat: A Study of the Meaning of Oedipus rex
Paolucci, Anne. “The Oracles Are Dumb or Cheat: A Study of the Meaning of Oedipus Rex.” The Classical Journal (Classical Association of the Middle West and South), vol. 58, no. 6, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1963, pp. 241–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3293982.
Oedipus Rex
Schroeder, Patricia R. “Oedipus Rex.” Theatre Journal, vol. 66, no. 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, pp. 128–29.
Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex
Vernant, Jean-Pierre, and Page duBois. “Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex.” New Literary History, vol. 9, no. 3, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, pp. 475–501, https://doi.org/10.2307/468451.

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