Oedipus
Aristotle's Ideal Tragic Hero
The Hero Pattern
Works Cited / Credits



Sophocles' Oedipus can be classified as a great tragic hero, both by looking at Aristotle's ideas of an Ideal Tragic Hero and by looking at The Hero Pattern given by Lord Raglan in The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams.

The links above navigate to my analysis of how Oedipus fits into the Hero Pattern
and Oedipus as Aristotle's Ideal Tragic Hero, along with my works cited.



This page written and designed by Yvonne Sample for CLAS230 Classical Mythology at Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois. 2005