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192 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804747790
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 03 February 2004
Description
Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Ren Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken...
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192 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804747790
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 03 February 2004
Description
Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Ren Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken...