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<journal-id>0185-3058</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Nova tellus]]></journal-title>
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<issn>0185-3058</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-30582021000100027</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.19130/iifl.nt.2021.39.1.27542</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La peste del tirano Edipo: política, medicina y desmesura]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Tyrant Oedipus Plage: Politics, Medicine, and Excess]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[García Pérez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[David]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2021</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>39</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>27</fpage>
<lpage>43</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-30582021000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-30582021000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-30582021000100027&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En este trabajo se expone la relación temática entre la política y la medicina que es posible discernir en el Edipo tirano de Sófocles. El hilo conductor entre ambas disciplinas (&#964;&#941;&#967;&#957;&#945;&#953;) es el concepto de desmesura (&#8021;&#946;&#961;&#953;&#962;) como causa de la peste que asoló la región del Ática en el 430 a. C., de acuerdo con la disposición trágica del mito de Edipo. Para tal fin, se recurre a Tucídides como fuente histórica, lo que permite un acercamiento a la tragedia de Sófocles desde la historiografía y, de este modo, se argumenta la configuración del Edipo como tirano; un concepto estrechamente enlazado con el tema de la pandemia referida.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: 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 (&#8021;&#946;&#961;&#953;&#962;) as a common thread between both arts (&#964;&#941;&#967;&#957;&#945;&#953;) as it is the cause of the wrecking plague in 430 BC Attica, just as it is formulated in the Tragic version of Oedipus&#787; myth. We resort to the History of Thucydides to help us approaching Sophocles&#787; tragedy from historiography and, thus, configurating Oedipus as a tyrant, conception linked to the theme of the aforementioned plague.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[pandemia]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Oedipus]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Disease]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Hybris]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sophocles]]></kwd>
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