Mark R. Anspach is the author of Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness and the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire, by René Girard.Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. He is the author of works including The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard and coauthor of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action.

The strength of the book lies in the choice of invigorating essays. . . . Mark Anspach has done brilliantly to combine a wide range of scholarly interests, from Burkert and Delcourt’s anthropological history to Terry Eagleton’s literary criticism, while maintaining a clear, common thread in the strong emphasis on the context of ritual, the scapegoat (pharmakos), and the superficiality of Oedipus’ guilt for the crimes with which he is associated. Particularly exciting is the way that the book plays with ideas of time, place and responsibility. . . . Anspach’s playful selection rewards prolonged study.—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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

Mark R. Anspach is the author of Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness and the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire, by René Girard.Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. He is the author of works including The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard and coauthor of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action.

The strength of the book lies in the choice of invigorating essays. . . . Mark Anspach has done brilliantly to combine a wide range of scholarly interests, from Burkert and Delcourt’s anthropological history to Terry Eagleton’s literary criticism, while maintaining a clear, common thread in the strong emphasis on the context of ritual, the scapegoat (pharmakos), and the superficiality of Oedipus’ guilt for the crimes with which he is associated. Particularly exciting is the way that the book plays with ideas of time, place and responsibility. . . . Anspach’s playful selection rewards prolonged study.—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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

Mark R. Anspach is the author of Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness and the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire, by René Girard.Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. He is the author of works including The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard and coauthor of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action.

The strength of the book lies in the choice of invigorating essays. . . . Mark Anspach has done brilliantly to combine a wide range of scholarly interests, from Burkert and Delcourt’s anthropological history to Terry Eagleton’s literary criticism, while maintaining a clear, common thread in the strong emphasis on the context of ritual, the scapegoat (pharmakos), and the superficiality of Oedipus’ guilt for the crimes with which he is associated. Particularly exciting is the way that the book plays with ideas of time, place and responsibility. . . . Anspach’s playful selection rewards prolonged study.—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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