Editing Oedipus (section)

==Post-Classical literature==
[[Oedipus]] was a figure who was also used in the [[Latin literature]] of [[ancient Rome]]. [[Julius Caesar]] wrote a play on Oedipus, but it has not survived into modern times.<ref>E.F. Watling's Introduction to Seneca: Four Tragedies and Octavia</ref> [[Ovid]] included Oedipus in ''[[Metamorphoses]]'', but only as the person who defeated the Sphinx. He makes no mention of Oedipus's troubled experiences with his father and mother. [[Seneca the Younger]] wrote his own [[Oedipus (Seneca)|play]] on the story of Oedipus in the first century AD. It differs in significant ways from the work of Sophocles.

Some scholars have argued that Seneca's play on the myth was intended to be recited at private gatherings and not actually performed. It has however been successfully [[Oedipus (Seneca)#Performances|staged]] since the [[Renaissance]].  It was adapted by [[John Dryden]] in his very successful [[heroic drama]] ''[[Oedipus (play by John Dryden)|Oedipus]]'', licensed in 1678. The 1718 ''[[Oedipus (Voltaire)|Oedipus]]'' was also the first play written by [[Voltaire]]. A version of Oedipus by [[Frank McGuinness]] was performed at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in late 2008, starring [[Ralph Fiennes]] and [[Clare Higgins (actress)|Claire Higgins]].

In the late 1960s [[Ola Rotimi]] published a novel and play, ''[[The Gods Are Not to Blame]]'', which retell the Oedipus myth happening in the [[Yorùbáland|Yoruba kingdom]].<ref>Rotimi O., ''The Gods are Not to Blame'', Three Crown Books, Nigeria 1974</ref>

In 2011, U.S. writer [[David Guterson]] published his Oedipus-inspired novel "Ed King".{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

In [[folkloristics]], the myth of Oedipus is classified in the international [[Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index]] as tale type ATU 931, "Oedipus".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aarne |first1=Antti |author1-link=Antti Aarne |last2=Thompson |first2=Stith |author2-link=Stith Thompson |title=The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography |series=Folklore Fellows Communications FFC |volume=184 |place=Helsinki |publisher=Academia Scientiarum Fennica |date=1961 |page=328}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Racėnaitė |first=Radvilė |title=Novelinė pasaka "Edipas" (AT 931) : individualaus atlikimo atspindžiai užrašytame pasakos tekste |trans-title=Novel tale Oedipus (AT 931): reflections of individual performance in the written text of the tale |journal=Tautosakos darbai |trans-journal=Folklore Studies |date=2005 |volume=29 |pages=100–110 |issn=1392-2831 |url=	https://www.lituanistika.lt/content/1579 |language=Lithuanian}}</ref><ref>{{ill|Puchner, Walter|de|Walter Puchner}}. "[https://www.degruyter.com/database/EMO/entry/emo.10.042/html Ödipus (AaTh 931)]". In: ''[[Enzyklopädie des Märchens]]''. Edited by Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, Heidrun Alzheimer, Hermann Bausinger, Wolfgang Brückner, Daniel Drascek, Helge Gerndt, Ines Köhler-Zülch, Klaus Roth and Hans-Jörg Uther. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016 [2002]. pp. 209-219. {{ISBN|978-3-11-016841-9}}. Accessed 2023-01-03.</ref>