Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. 1922.

Fragments of the Epic Cycle

The Story of Oedipus

… the Story of Oedipus by Cinaethon in six thousand six hundred verses.

Judging by Homer I do not believe that Oedipus had children by Iocasta: his sons were born of Euryganeia as the writer of the Epic called the Story of Oedipus clearly shows.

The authors of the Story of Oedipus (say) of the Sphinx: “But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys.”