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Some echoes of the Euripidean Oedipus have been traced also in a scene of Seneca's Oedipus (see below), in which Oedipus himself describes to Jocasta his adventure with the Sphinx.

Julius Caesar wrote a play on Oedipus, but it has not survived into modern times.

Seneca the Younger wrote his own play on the story of Oedipus in the first century AD.

And at the Museum of the Rockies where we work, I have four T. Rexes, so I can cut a whole bunch of them.

It was adapted by John Dryden in his very successful heroic drama Oedipus , licensed in 1678.

Over the centuries, however, Oedipais seems to have been corrupted into the familiar Oedipus swollen foot.

And so she looked into the bone of this T. rex, one of the thigh bones, and she actually found some very interesting structures in there.

Oedipus or Oedipais? It has been suggested by some that in the earliest Ur myth of the hero, he was called Oedipais child of the swollen sea.

Back in 1993 when the movie came out, we actually had a grant from the National Science Foundation to attempt to extract DNA from a dinosaur, and we chose the dinosaur on the left, a Tyrannosaurus rex, which was a very nice specimen.

The other word, peripeteia, that's the moment in the great tragedies, you know Euripides and Sophocles the moment where Oedipus has his moment, where he suddenly realizes that hot chick he's been sleeping with and having babies with is his mother. OK.

Freud reasoned that the ancient Greek audience, which heard the story told or saw the plays based on it, did know that Oedipus was actually killing his father and marrying his mother the story being continually told and played therefore reflected a preoccupation with the theme.