The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)

Contents\nPreface, by Mark R. Anspach\nAcknowledgments\nSophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson, translated into English by Wm. Blake Tyrrell\nPart One. The Ritual Background\n	Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual, by Walter Burkert\n	Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece, by Jan Bremmer\n	The Exposed Infant, by Marie Delcourt\nPart Two. King and Victim\n	Imitating Oedipus, by Mark R. Anspach\n	Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, by René Girard\n	Excerpt from Sweet Violence, by Terry Eagleton\n	Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex, by Jean-Pierre Vernant\n	Oedipus as Pharmakos, by Helene Peet Foley\nPart Three. Oedipus on Trial\n	Excerpt from Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, by Michel Foucault\n	The Murderers of Laius, by William Chase Greene\n	The Murderers of Laius, Again (Soph. OT 106–7), by Rick M. Newton\n	Who Killed Laius? by Karl Harshbarger\n	Lêistas Ephaske: Oedipus and Laius’ Many Murderers, by Sandor Goodhart\n	An Anonymous Namer: The Corinthian’s Testimony, by Frederick Ahl\nIndex