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Ten Reasons Iokaste Is Important 1. Ancient Greece is current! Movies such as Troy and Alexander, and the 2004 Olympics in Athens, have fanned the flames of popular interest in the ancient world. 2. Every year students explore Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Iokaste: The Novel of the Mother-Wife of Oedipus offers teachers and professors as well as students a new way to read the classic text. 3. The Oedipus myth is a key paradigm of modern psychoanalysis. Iokaste sheds a completely new light on the story. 4. Ancient Greek mythology and literature shaped the Western mindset. These are the links to the past we adopt most frequently as our own. 5. Iokaste is a page-turner! Advance readers missed meals and sleep and bus stops! 6. Women aged 30 to 60 are the most frequent readers. Iokaste offers these readers a strong, interesting, sympathetic protagonist with unusual problems. 7. Iokaste is perfect for reading groups. A set of discussion questions for Iokaste is available. 8. Well-written, well-researched historical fiction is a perennial favorite. Think of I, Claudius! 9. Fresh perspective! Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is a theater piece created for the audience of his day – already 700 years after the events would have taken place. 10. For millennia we’ve only read Oedipus’ version of events. But Iokaste’s story is far more interesting. What made her give away her infant son? Did she ever recognize Oedipus? And what did she do about it? It’s about time we heard her story… Return to Home for Tapestry of Bronze