ABSTRACT
With the Romans, Labdacid myth becomes literature in two new senses. First, Greek literature now becomes classical for the first time. Educated Romans speak and read Greek, and their culture includes the great Theban epics and tragedies of the Greek poets. In one of Cicero’s philosophical dialogues, his brother Quintus speaks of his admiration for Oedipus’ opening speech in Oedipus at Colonus.1
