Essays Tagged: "Polybus of Corinth"

Star-Crossed Ignorants

s fate, and try to avoid it with the ³knowledge² that he had obtained:³My father was Polybus of Corinth, my mother the Dorian Merope, and I was held the foremost man in all that town un ...

(2 pages) 49 0 3.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

An Essay on Oedipus Rex

was king of Thebes. Even at the beginning of the story, when we are told thatOedipus is the son of Polybus, he is still of noble birth; Polybus is king of Corinth.The tragic flaw, or mistake that a c ...

(2 pages) 160 0 3.7 Aug/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Oedipus the King, issues in morality

either by the divine intervention of Apollo or his own bad luck. He believed his true parents were Polybus and Merope from Corinth. To the best of his knowledge, Jocasta was not related to him before ...

(3 pages) 61 0 4.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

King Oedipus - Psychological Evaluation

ere also blind to the truth involving your own life. You grew up believing that you were the son of Polybus of Corinth, and of a Dorian mother, Merope. Had you not been blind to the truth, had you kno ...

(2 pages) 28 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Oedipus And Fate

hebes believing that this act would let him escape his fate. However, what he did not know was that Polybus and Merope were not his birth parents, thereby enforcing the fact that it was fate that dire ... racle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother, he had no reason to believe that Polybus and Merope were not his real parents, and even if they were not, what were the chances that ...

(2 pages) 5 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Oedipus And Fate

hebes believing that this act would let him escape his fate. However, what he did not know was that Polybus and Merope were not his birth parents, thereby enforcing the fact that it was fate that dire ... racle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother, he had no reason to believe that Polybus and Merope were not his real parents, and even if they were not, what were the chances that ...

(2 pages) 1376 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature