the meaning of the name oedipus is  swollen foot ''.
the meaning of the name oedipus is  swollen foot ''.
what is the meaning of the name oedipus?
`` swollen foot ''
the species was first described by linnaeus in 1758 as "simia oedipus". linnaeus chose the species name "oedipus", which means "swollen foot", but as the species does not have particularly large feet, it is unknown why he chose this name. (linnaeus often selected names from mythology without any particular rationale, and he may have used the name of oedipus, the mythical greek king of thebes, more or less arbitrarily.) in 1977, philip hershkovitz performed a taxonomic analysis of the species based on fur coloration patterns, cranial and mandibular morphology, and ear size. he classified geoffroy's tamarin "s. geoffroyi" as a subspecies of "s. oedipus". subsequent analyses by hernández-camacho and cooper (1976), mittermeier and coimbra-filho (1981), and later grooves (2001) consider the "s. oedipus" and "s. geoffroyi" types to be separate species.
cotton-top tamarin
in "uberlegungen zum "oedipus" des euripides" (1990), martin hose suggested a reconstruction of the plot of "oedipus" as follows. oedipus' adoptive mother periboea arrives in thebes to tell him that his (adopted) father polybus has died. oedipus is as yet unaware that he is adopted, and believes periboea and polybus to be his biological parents. oedipus proudly tells periboea how he defeated the sphinx, earning for himself the newly vacant throne of thebes and marriage to thebes' newly widowed queen jocasta. periboea arrived in thebes in a chariot that oedipus had sent her as a gift, which had belonged to the previous king laius and which laius was riding when he was killed. laius' servants would have recognized the chariot, thus realizing that oedipus was the killer of laius, and blind him as punishment for the deed. creon might have been involved in the blinding. as yet, it would not have been revealed that oedipus was the biological son of laius, and hence the fragment describing the blinding refers to oedipus as the son of polybus. the blind oedipus has a scene with jocasta and possibly periboea in which the fact that his biological parents are laius and jocasta is revealed. menoetes, another servant of laius who had originally exposed oedipus when he was born, might have played a role in this recognition scene as well. as a result of this revelation, creon wants to exile oedipus as further punishment, generating the later fragments. these include jocasta's support for and sharing of moral responsibility with oedipus and her accusing creon of jealousy of oedipus, which led to the catastrophe. most scholars agree that the play ended with jocasta joining oedipus in exile.
oedipus (euripides)