curse of Oedipus

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The curse of Oedipus is a tragic doom placed upon Oedipus and his descendants, leading to inevitable conflict, suffering, and destruction within his family line in Greek mythology.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
House of Oedipus 1
curse of Oedipus canonical 1
transgression of Laius 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf motif in Greek tragedy
mythological curse
theme in Greek mythology
appliesTo Antigone
Eteocles
Ismene
Jocasta
Laius
Oedipus
Polynices
associatedWithMythCycle Theban cycle
associatedWithPlace Thebes
centralToWork Antigone
Oedipus Rex
linked to: Oedipus Tyrannus

Oedipus at Colonus
Phoenician Women
Seven Against Thebes
connectedToProphecy Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother
documentedIn plays of Aeschylus
plays of Euripides
linked to: Euripidean corpus

plays of Sophocles
exemplifies conflict between free will and fate
tragic irony
hasCulturalImpactOn Western tragic literature
psychoanalytic interpretations of myth
hasOriginIn Greek mythology
involvesTheme divine retribution
family tragedy
fate
incest
inevitability of destiny
intergenerational guilt
parricide
narrativeFunction to explain the repeated disasters of the house of Laius
relatedHouse house of Laius
royal house of Thebes
resultsIn civil war in Thebes
conflict between Eteocles and Polynices
death of Antigone
death of Eteocles
death of Jocasta
death of Polynices
exile of Oedipus
self-blinding of Oedipus
suffering of Antigone
suffering of Oedipus
timePeriodOfMyth Archaic and Classical Greece
linked to: Classical Greece
triggeredBy transgression of Laius
linked to: curse of Oedipus

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eteocles associatedWithCurse curse of Oedipus
curse of Oedipus triggeredBy transgression of Laius
linked to: curse of Oedipus
House of Creon of Thebes predecessorHouse House of Oedipus
linked to: curse of Oedipus