20 Works in Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
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The Sphinx by WildwoodQueen
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
04 Feb 2020
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The Sphinx asks a riddle to every traveller who passes by. Now, she is faced with Oedipus, who she knows will be the cause of her destruction. This fact doesn't overly distress her, because, after all, you can't fight fate.
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- Part 4 of Mythology Poems
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 271
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 18
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Oedipus Ren by valeriacatulli
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
14 Jan 2020
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What happens when you don't tell a boy about his family? Sometimes, he burns down the Jedi academy. Sometimes, he kills his father and marries his mother.
Kylo Ren has "Greek tragedy" written all over him, but for all the Hades-Persephone fics, there doesn't seem to be a serious Oedipus myth retelling out there.
Unfortunately for all of us, I have now written one. Please don't hate me. -
Hands Dirty by lovelyleias
Fandoms: Greek and Roman Mythology, Antigone - Anouilh, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
28 Nov 2018
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Ismene is not brave, but perhaps she can pretend.
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Ember by btown09
Fandoms: The Lorax (2012), The Lorax - Dr. Seuss, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
25 Aug 2018
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A girl named Ember moves to a new city, put a prophecy will bring her life of light into darkness. Based on Oedipus by Sophocles.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,319
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 66
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Tiresias and the Snakes of his Life by Benji_Deeds
Fandoms: Greek and Roman Mythology, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Hellenistic Religion & Lore
31 Jan 2018
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Based on the under known myth where Tiresias gets turned into a woman after striking a pair of snakes. He gets turned blind, and then his life turns upside down when he meets a woman who lives far away from the main city. Medusa, who's hair is like the very snakes that turned Tiresias into what he is now.
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if a glance is dawn breaking, then twilight is a whisper of your name by LearaBribage
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Antigone - Sophocles, Greek Tragedy
11 Oct 2017
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"What's happy for you?" he then treaded carefully, aware of her unwavering desire for flight. (Prompt from SweetTveitoPie: "Is there a reason you're naked in my bed?" + Antigone and Haemon Greek Tragedy mix + the happy ending to "insanity laughs under pressure")
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- Part 2 of shifts in the folds of time
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 639
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 346
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After Antigone's death, Ismene begins to question how her identity and her citizenship are entwined.
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Gifts of Sphinx's Riddle by Abby_Ebon
Fandoms: Greek and Roman Mythology, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
20 Jan 2016
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Greek Myth, Oedipus/Jocasta, he knows she's given birth before, but out of respect for her grief for her first husband and the child he never spoke to her about it. Now his daughter is on the way and he is terrified of what Jocasta must face.
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- Part 78 of Bite Sized Bits of Fic
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I, Polyneices, son of Oedipus, cannot die. by saberchild
Fandoms: Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
18 Jan 2016
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Antigone from Polyneices's perspective.
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Three-sentence fiction, 2015, various by Heliopause
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Faerie Queene, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Richard Dadd/Queen, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Pygmalion - Shaw, Othello - Shakespeare, Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthurian Mythology, Doctor Who (1963), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Short Stories - Saki, Doctor Who (2005)
15 Mar 2015
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at the end of the world by eatingplums
Fandoms: Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Tragedy
22 Feb 2015
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She's tying her noose when she remembers-
living is an awful affair, isn't it?
(Jocasta counts back all those years, trying to pinpoint when the world really started ending)
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a poor man's memory by eatingplums
Fandoms: Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Tragedy
23 Oct 2014
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Creon sees ghosts. One of them is his sister.
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It is worst when Jocasta is the one to summon the ghosts of Corinth.
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Don't Step on the Butterfly by Chajazzhands
Fandoms: Macbeth - Shakespeare, Julius Caesar - Shakespeare, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Williams, Antigone - Fandom, A Doll's House, An Enemy of the People
01 Oct 2012
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"What are you, the Ghost of English Classes Past?"
In which a reluctant hero (who actually caused the problem in the first place) is drafted to save the multiverse, and it turns out that the things you learn in English class are more important than you'd think.
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Greek Mythology Femslash Drabbles by Ilthit
Fandoms: Greek and Roman Mythology, The Iliad - Homer, Antigone - Sophocles, Sumerian Mythology
04 Mar 2012
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Drabbles (100 words) Greek mythology femslash drabbles from a past femslash100 challenge.
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Everyone In My AP Lit Class Is Dead by Ember Nickel (primeideal)
Fandoms: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard, Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot, Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, Benito Cereno - Herman Melville, The Hollow Men - T. S. Eliot, Hamlet - Shakespeare, Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, The Music School - John Updike, Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde, Dubliners - James Joyce, Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
31 Jan 2012
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From Kurtz to Okonkwo, Jocasta to Gertrude, Alfred Schweigen to J. Alfred Prufrock, death is just the beginning. Originally posted June 2009.
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Ανους μεν ερχηι, τοις φιλοις δ'ορθως φιλη (You Go in Folly, but to Your Dear Ones Truly Dear) by Quinara for laeria
Fandoms: Antigone - Sophocles, Greek and Roman Mythology
10 Oct 2010
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Ismene does not believe in death.
[Warning for issues of suicide.]
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On his way to Kolonos, Polyneikes reflects on his relationship with his father.
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Basically something I cobbled together [with help] in a Classics lesson. It's Oedipus the King in 5 minutes!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,098
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 136