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Oedipus Oedipus (, ; grc-gre, Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby ...

was the mythical king of Thebes. Oedipus may also refer to: *

Oedipus (horse) Oedipus (1946–1978) was an American Champion Thoroughbred steeplechase racehorse. Sired by 1929's flat racing Horse of the Year Blue Larkspur and foaled in Kentucky, Oedipus was purchased by Lillian Bostwick Phipps and was conditioned by futu ...

, an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Plays

* ''

Oedipus Rex ''Oedipus Rex'', also known by its Greek title, ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' ( grc, Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, ), or ''Oedipus the King'', is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Gr ...

'', an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles * ''

Oedipus at Colonus ''Oedipus at Colonus'' (also ''Oedipus Coloneus''; grc, Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, ''Oidipous epi Kolōnōi'') is the last of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's d ...

'', an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles * ''Oedipus'' (Euripides), a mostly lost play * ''Oedipus'' (Seneca), a Latin-language tragedy by Seneca the Younger * ''Oedipus'' (Dryden), an English-language tragedy by John Dryden * ''Oedipus'' (Voltaire), a French-language tragedy by Voltaire

Operas

* ''Œdipe'' (opera), by George Enescu * ''Oedipus rex'' (opera), by Igor Stravinsky * ''Oedipus'', by

Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Sa ...

Greek (opera) ''Greek'' is an opera in two acts composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage to a libretto adapted by Turnage and Jonathan Moore from Steven Berkoff's 1980 verse play ''Greek (play), Greek''. The play and the opera are a re-telling of Sophocles's Greek trage ...

, by Mark-Anthony Turnage

Modern music

Oedipus (band) Oedipus was a rock band from Los Angeles. The band consisted of Jeremy Haffner (lead vocals, bass guitar), Stephen Cohen (guitar, vocals) and Keith Larsen (drums, vocals). The band's influences included Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Muse, 311 ...

, an American rock band * "Oedipus", a song by Regina Spektor on the album ''

Songs A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition ...

'' *

Oedipus (DJ) Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. Oedipus's radio career began in 1975 as a D.J. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s college station WTBS (today WMBR). He gained notoriety as the pink-haired DJ who created the ...

, the long-time program director of WBCN in Boston

Films

* ''Oedipus Rex'' (film), a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Oedipus complex

Oedipus complex The Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) is an idea in psychoanalytic theory. The complex is an ostensibly universal phase in the life of a young boy in which, to try to immediately satisfy basic desires, he unconsciously wishes to have ...

, a psychological theory * ''

Oedipina complex ''Oedipina complex'', commonly known as the Gamboa worm salamander, is a species of lungless salamander found in western South America from Costa Rica to western Colombia and north-western Ecuador. This species inhabits humid tropical lowland fo ...

'', the Gamboa worm salamander, formerly known as ''Oedipus complex''

Zoology

*''Oedipus'' Berthold, 1827, a junior synonym of the insect genus ''

Locusta Locusta or Lucusta (died 69), was a notorious maker of poisons in the 1st-century Roman Empire, active in the final two reigns of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She supposedly took part in the assassinations of Claudius and Britannicus. She was a f ...

'' (migratory locust) *''Oedipus'' Tschudi, 1838, an invalid name for the amphibian genus ''

Bolitoglossa ''Bolitoglossa'' is a genus of lungless salamanders, also called mushroom-tongued salamanders, tropical climbing salamanders, or web-footed salamanders, in the family Plethodontidae. Their range is between northern Mexico through Central Americ ...

'' *''Oedipus'' Lesson, 1840, an invalid name for the primate genus ''

Saguinus The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus ''Saguinus''. They are the first offshoot in the Callitrichidae tree, and therefore are the sister group of a clade formed by the lion tamarins, Goeld ...

'' (tamarins) *''Oedipus'' Dana, 1852, an invalid name for the crustacean genus ''

Coralliocaris ''Coralliocaris'' is a genus of shrimps belonging to the family Palaemonidae Palaemonidae is a family of shrimp in the order Decapoda. Many species are carnivores that eat small invertebrates, and can be found in any aquatic habitat except t ...

'' *''Oedipus'' Menge, 1876, an invalid name for some spiders in the family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

(jumping spiders)

Characters

Stinkor Stinkor is a fictional character, a villain from ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe''. Labeled the "Evil Master of Odors," Stinkor is essentially a humanoid skunk whose superpower is the ability to release a toxic odor from his body that ren ...

, original name Oedipus (He-man and the masters of the universe) anime {{disambiguation