From ejt1@columbia.edu Sat May 5 18:00:31 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4610T089400 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:00:30 -0700 Received: from konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (IDENT:cu58912@konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.132]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4610TF10338 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:00:29 -0700 Received: from localhost by konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10630 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:00:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:00:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Elias J Theodoracopoulos Sender: ejt1@columbia.edu To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: On Oedipus' anger (Re: Knox in Box) In-Reply-To: <3AF48D23.3243601C@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 5 May 2001, Thomas R. Walsh wrote: > But the following comment runs up against a fundamental problem: Oedipus > does not know he is abandoned at the time of his worst fits. His anger > is an issue only up until the truth is revealed, after which there are > emotions in play that are not so easily identified as 'anger'. Or do we > want to say that he is expressing emotion about something he does not > know? Maybe it's time to re-read another of Dodd's works, "On Misreading > Oedipus Tyrannos"(vel sim.). His being plastos patri was imputed to him in Corinth (780) before his worst fits. Pace Dodds, Sophocles may indeed suggest that the emotion expressed is about something he does not know, but the audience does. He has already called himself ho me:den eido:s Oidipous (397). Other than solving riddles (content unknown in the play), what does Oedipus know? Nothing. EJTh .