Table of Contents
Preface Mark R. Anspach vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated H. Lloyd-Jones N. G. Wilson Wm. Blake Tyrrell 1
Part 1 The Ritual Background
Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual Walter Burkert 129
Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece Jan Bremmer 167
The Exposed Infant Marie Delcourt 191
Part 2 King and Victim
Imitating Oedipus Mark R. Anspach 219
Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim René Girard 245
Excerpt from Sweet Violence Terry Eagleton 269
Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex Jean-Pierre Vernant 279
Oedipus as Pharmakos Helene Peet Foley 309
Part 3 Oedipus on Trial
Excerpt from Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling Michel Foucault 329
The Murderers of Laius William Chase Greene 363
The Murderers of Laius, Again (Soph. OT 106-7) Rick M. Newton 375
Who Killed Laius? Karl Harshbarger 381
Lêistas Ephaske: Oedipus and Laius' Many Murderers Sandor Goodhart 393
An Anonymous Namer: The Corinthian's Testimony Frederick Ahl 421
Index 453