NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
How To Use Oedipus Rex In A Sentence
- Oedipus Rex is notable for its use of dramatic irony: everybody in the audience knows from the start that Oedipus himself is the guilty party he seeks out for punishment.
- Put a modern cinemagoer in front of an ancient staging of Oedipus Rex, and they could easily follow it.
- The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
- Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex, for example, deals with something so psychologically basic that people from all cultures can respond to it. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
- It's a sticky soap opera that makes Neighbours look like Oedipus Rex. STAGE FRIGHT
- In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone.
