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Oedipus
by Henry Treece
Book 3 in the Mycenaean Greek Trilogy series.
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Oedipus grows up separated from the truth of his birth and travels through a harsh, fragmented Greece shaped by prophecy, local kingship and ritual fear. Intelligence and physical courage carry him to Thebes, where he defeats the Sphinx and receives a crown and queen. The achievements that make him a successful ruler are founded on acts whose meaning he does not yet understand.
When plague and political suspicion force an investigation into an earlier murder, Oedipus turns the same relentless judgement upon his own past. Treece reconstructs the myth as a plausible Bronze Age dynastic history while retaining its tragic structure. Kingship, parentage and prophecy converge until knowledge becomes more destructive than ignorance.
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