Political aspects in the reception of the Oedipus' myth

Abstract

The present paper considers the changes that took place in the reception of the Oedipus myth placed in the political context: these relate to both the plot-compositional and the ideologicalfgurative levels. The political relevance of the two French Oedipus plays is directly opposite in interpreting the image of the protagonist: Corneille's Oedipe refers to a legitimate king, while the Oedipe of Voltaire presents a regent who seized power illegally. Thus, myth is transformed from a tragedy into a pamphlet. Ozerov's tragedy