TheOedipodea (Ancient Greek:Οἰδιπόδεια,romanized: Oidipódeia) is a lostpoem of theTheban cycle, a part of theEpic Cycle (Επικὸς Κύκλος). The poem was about 6,600 verses long and the authorship was credited by ancient authorities toCinaethon (Κιναίθων), a barely-known poet who probably lived in Sparta.^[1]Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3 BC.^[2][3] Only three short fragments and one testimonium survived.

TheOedipodea told the story of theSphinx andOedipus and presented an alternative view of theOedipus myth. According toPausanias,^[4] Cinaethon states that the marriage betweenOedipus and his own mother,Jocasta, was childless; his children had been born from another engagement withEuryganeia (Εὐρυγανεία), daughter ofHyperphas (Ὑπέρφας). That is all we know about these two characters.

A small glimpse of Cinaethon's style survives inPlutarch'sOn the Pythia's Oracles 407b: "he added unnecessary pomp and drama to the oracles".

• Kinkel, G. (1877),Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta, vol. 1, Leipzig: B.G. Teubneri.
• Allen, T.W. (1912),Homeri opera. Tomus V: Hymni, Cyclus, Fragmenta, Margites, Batrachomyomachia, Vitae, Oxford University Press,ISBN 0-19-814534-9{{citation}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help).
• Bernabé, A. (1988),Poetae epici Graecae, vol. 1, Leipzig: Teubner,ISBN 978-3-598-71706-2.
• Davies, M. (1988),Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,ISBN 978-3-525-25747-0.

• Evelyn-White, H.G. (1936),Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (3rd rev. ed.), Cambridge, Massachusetts{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
  • —— (1914),Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MacMillan Co,ISBN 978-0-674-99063-0{{citation}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help). English translation with facing Greek text; now obsolete except for its translations of the ancient quotations.
• West, M.L. (2003),Greek Epic Fragments, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,ISBN 978-0-674-99605-2. Greek text with facing English translation

• Davies, M. (1989),Greek Epic Cycle, London,ISBN 978-1-85399-039-7{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

• 8th-century BC books
• 8th-century BC poems
• Theban Cycle
• Lost poems

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