Abstract

GARCIA PEREZ, David. The Tyrant Oedipus Plage: Politics, Medicine, and Excess. Nova tellus [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.1, pp.27-43.  Epub May 05, 2021. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2021.39.1.27542.

This paper exposes the thematic relationship between politics and medicine which can be inferred from the Oedipus Tyranus by Sophocles. We can find the concept of excess (ὕβρις) as a common thread between both arts (τέχναι) as it is the cause of the wrecking plague in 430 BC Attica, just as it is formulated in the Tragic version of Oedipus̓ myth. We resort to the History of Thucydides to help us approaching Sophocles̓ tragedy from historiography and, thus, configurating Oedipus as a tyrant, conception linked to the theme of the aforementioned plague.

Keywords : Oedipus; Disease; Hybris; Pandemic; Sophocles; Tyrant; Thucydides.

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