Oedipus (disambiguation)

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Oedipus was the mythical king of Thebes.

Oedipus may also refer to:

• Oedipus (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Plays

• Oedipus the King, an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles
• Oedipus at Colonus, 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

• Oedipus (Z.583, theatre music), by Henry Purcell
• Œdipe (opera), by George Enescu
• Oedipus rex (opera), by Igor Stravinsky
• Oedipus (opera), by Wolfgang Rihm
• Greek, by Mark-Anthony Turnage

Modern music

• Oedipus Records, a record label
• Oedipus (band), an American rock band
• "Oedipus", a song by Regina Spektor on the album Songs
• Oedipus (DJ), 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, a psychological theory
• Oedipina complex, the Gamboa worm salamander, formerly known as Oedipus complex

Zoology

• Oedipus Berthold, 1827, a junior synonym of the insect genus Locusta (migratory locust)
• Oedipus Tschudi, 1838, an invalid name for the amphibian genus Bolitoglossa
• Oedipus Lesson, 1840, an invalid name for the primate genus Saguinus (tamarins)
• Oedipus Dana, 1852, an invalid name for the crustacean genus Coralliocaris
• Oedipus Menge, 1876, an invalid name for some spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders)

Characters

• Stinkor, original name Oedipus (He-man and the masters of the universe) anime