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Laio-Crisippo
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Ancient Greek Beliefs - Page 568
Perry L. Westmoreland - 2007 - 828 pages - Preview
Thyestes, Atreus, Chrysippus, and Laius Pelops exiles his twin sons, Thyestes and Atreus, from Olympia for killing their stepbrother, Chrysippus.
This bastard son of Pelops is kidnapped by the Theban king Laius and forced by the king to ...
The crimes of the Oedipodean cycle
Henry Newpher Bowman - 1913 - 62 pages - Snippet view
About the origin of the evils of
Laius and his race, ancient authorities are
not agreed.
That the sinful love of Laius for Chrysippus provoked the anger of Hera (or Mars) -- who then sends the Sphynx from Ethiopia -- is one explanation; another is practically the same, ...
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Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook - Page 218
Lowell Edmunds, Alan Dundes - 1995 - 274 pages - Preview
According to some Greek sources (Aelian, citing Euripide) Laio was the inventor of homoerotic desire.
It is not clear whether it was before or after he married Giocasta and fathered Oedipus, that Laius fell violently in love with Chrysippus, son of King Pelops.
Gleanings: Essays 1982-2006 - Page 289
Christine Downing - 2006 - 336 pages - Preview
Just as Hillman deliberately does not envisage this as a father-son dyad, so in the play the Laius-Chrysippus and the Laius-Oedipus relationships almost merge but don't quite.)
Moving beyond a literalized understanding of this emphasis ...
Modes of Thought: Explorations in Culture and Cognition - Page 167
David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance - 1996 - 305 pages - Preview
From Caldwell's comments, this is due to a
decomposition of their sexual preferences into
contrary objects of desire (Caldwell, 1989, pp. 62-5).
Thus, for example, Laio marries Giocasta but prefers Crisippo, the son of Pelops.
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On philia - Page 47
Cosimo Schinaia, Antonella Sansone - 2010 - 301 pages - Preview
Pelope's youngest son, Chrysippus, was not born of Hippodamia, but from Pelops's union with the nymph Astioca. He was Pelops's twenty-third son and he was really beautiful. Laius and Chrysippus The crime committed by Laius, ...
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The plays of Sophocles: commentaries: Part 4 - Page 7
J. C. Kamerbeek - 1997 - 272 pages - Preview
It does not seem probable —there is nothing at any rate in the text of the Septem that would lead us to suppose it— that Aeschylus' trilogy 'included the curse called down on Laius by Pelops, when bereft by him of his son Chrysippus' (J ...
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Platonic Stoicism, Stoic Platonism: The Dialogue Between Platonism ... - Page 181
Mauro Bonazzi, Christoph Helmig - 2007 - 310 pages - Preview
SVF 2.998 and 939 are widely separated in Eusebius,46 but that proves nothing about their relation either in Diogenianus' original text or in chrysippus'. SVF 2.939 is the passage Bobzien refers to when she says (208) that “laius occurs ...
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Phoenissae - Page 36
Euripidēs, Donald J. Mastronarde - 1994 - 673 pages - Preview
I agree with Hutchinson (Septem comm., xxiii) that the most probable content of A.'s Laius is the events leading to his death at Oedipus' hands and that, like the oracle, the incident with Chrysippus (if mentioned at all) lay in the ...
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Norman Rockwell: the underside of innocence - Page 86
R. Halpern - 2006 - 201 pages - Preview
For Oedipus's father Laius, king of Thebes, was also known among the Greeks as the inventor of homoerotic desire.
According to myth, the young Laius fled in exile to the house of Pelops, king of Pisa. Pelops entrusted his son Chrysippus to ...
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