Okay, this sounds slightly familiar...you know how Oedipus was exposed? Which makes him a scapegoat, like Jesus was. Scapegoating was very common in the ancient world. But I don't even know the connection between that and the shepherd business. Unless you were going to get into the similarities between the Dionysian rights and Christianity, which are uncanny but not the sort of thing an actual Christian would like. IDEK. Good for your prof! Though I would say that the obvious commonalities do speak to certain undercurrents in ancient societies.
It's the worst when people don't get when the prof is laying the smackdown, because then they don't change their behavior.
Oedipus Rex is the Latin name, and Oidipous Tyrannos is the Greek. Same difference, though most people say Oedipus Rex. Of course the irony is that he is king by blood, and doesn't know it, but it was my understanding that the τυραννος came from the fact that he was ruling without justice because he'd murdered his father.
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Date: 2009-11-08 02:03 am (UTC)It's the worst when people don't get when the prof is laying the smackdown, because then they don't change their behavior.
Oedipus Rex is the Latin name, and Oidipous Tyrannos is the Greek. Same difference, though most people say Oedipus Rex. Of course the irony is that he is king by blood, and doesn't know it, but it was my understanding that the τυραννος came from the fact that he was ruling without justice because he'd murdered his father.