Re: Oedipus

Tawagalawas appears in the Tawagalawas letter, and is mentioned as the
brother of the Great King of Ahhiyawa - Polynices?

Kádmos (according to Latacz) is mentioned in a letter found at Thebes
from the King of Ahhiyawa to the King of the Hittites; he is given as
one of the King's forebears.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Francisco Antonio Doria
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> Subject: [tied] Oedipus
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> We have evidence for a Tawagalawas/Eteokles; we have evidence for a

Kádmos

> at Thebes. What more evidence, if any, do we have for the existence

of a

> historical Oedipus?
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> I have written an article about Kadmos suggesting that this "person"

has to

> be interpreted as a completely mythical deity,
> that fits in the Dumezilian tripartite system.
> We'll see if it's reviewed worth the paper it's printed on.
> There is no historical evidence at all for this deity.
> "he" supposedly lived around -2000 BC and brought the alphabet at that
> time....
> To say nothing about dragons and sown men...
> And Zeus as a bull seducing "his" "sister".
>
> Arnaud
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