Oedipus Collection

Oedipus and Antigone. Engraving
Oedipus. Hero of Greek mythology. The Delphic oracle predicted that he would kill his father and marry his mother. When they discover the truth

Lillah McCarthy as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, London
Lillah McCarthy as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex at Covent Garden Theatre, London Date: 1912

Martin Harvey as Oedipus Rex in crowd scene
Martin Harvey as Oedipus Rex in a crowd scene at Covent Garden, London Date: 1912

Martin Harvey as Oedipus Rex at Covent Garden Theatre, London Date: 1912

Students of Berkely College, Acting Oedipus Rex
Students of Berkeley College, Acting ?dipus Rex in their Greek Theatre of the College. Teiresias, the seer, is seen approaching King ?dipus on the permanent stage possessed by the college

The reconstructed opera house
The Reconstructed Royal Opera House at Covent Garden; For Professor Reinhardt's presentation of Oedipus. This greatest outcome of the Greek genius of Sophocles was translated by Professor Gilbert

Mr Thomas Sheridan in the character of Oedipus in John Drydens Oedipus, Covent Garden Theatre, 1755. Irish actor, educator, and proponent of the elocution movement 1719-1788

Cotton-top tamarin, Saguinus oedipus. Critically endangered (Pinche or red-tailed monkey, Simia oedipus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by M

Etruscan art. Urn depicting the struggle between Eteocles an
Etruscan art. Urn of unknown origin, depicting the struggle between Eteocles and Polynices, sons of Oedipus, for the throne of Thebes. 4th-3th centuries B.C. Detail. Archaeology Museum of Barcelona

Jean Mounet-Sully / 1892
JEAN MOUNET-SULLY French actor in the role of Oedipus Rex at the Comedie Francaise Date: 1892

Harvey as Oedipus Rex
OEDIPUS REX Martin Harvey as Oedipus Date: early 20th century

Sheridan as Oedipus
THOMAS SHERIDAN actor in the role of Oedipus, in the play of that name by Sophocles : he was the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Date: 1719 - 1788

Kemble as Oedipus
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE the great classical actor as Sophocles Oedipus challenges Fate to find anyone as wretched as himself. Date: 1757 - 1823

Feliks Topolski
FELIKS TOPOLSKI (1907 - 1989), Polish-born British expressionist painter. Became an official war artist during World War Two - gained British citizenship in 1947

Oedipus Tyrannus 1
Suppliants before the palace of Oedipus and Jocasta at Thebes

Oedipus Tyrannus 5
left, a messenger : right, Oedipus, having blinded himself, embraces his children, before taking to the roads as a wanderer with his daughter Antigone

Oedipus Tyrannus 4
Tiresias, blind soothsayer who foretells gloom and woe : a messenger from Corinth who brings bad news : a herdsman of Laius who has disquieting revelations

Oedipus Tyrannus 2
Chorus of Theban elders

Theatre / Plays / Dryden
OEDIPUS by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee - Mr Sheridan as Oedipus

Oedipus and Sphinx
Oedipus, subsequently king of Thebes, successfully solves the riddle of the Sphinx and then rids the country of the monster

Red-Tailed Monkey Bewick
Simia oedipus (!) A lively, beautiful little animal who lives on the banks of the Amazon and is notable for its long silvery hair and its soft whistling voice

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