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Subject Guide: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (English 1B) 

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• Library Catalog - SCOTTY

• Sophocles
• Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Use for Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King)
• Oedipus (Greek mythology)
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Reference Books 

• Drama Criticism volume 1 (Sophocles/Oedipus Rex)
• The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays from Ancient Greece to Modern Times (Oedipus the King)
• Drama for Students  volume 1 (Oedipus Rex)
• Ancient Writers : Greece and Rome volume 1 (Sophocles)
• Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes (Oedipus Rex)
• Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world : Antiquity volume 10 - OBL-PHE (Oedipus); volume 13 - SAS-SYL (Sophocles)
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece (Sophocles)
• Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology (Oedipus)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion (Oedipus)
• Handbook of Classical Mythology (Oedipus)

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