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Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. 1922.

Fragments of the Epic Cycle

The Story of Oedipus

1.
… the Story of Oedipus by Cinaethon in six thousand six hundred verses.

2.
Judging by Homer I do not believe that Oedipus had children by Iocasta: his sons were born of Euryganeia as the writer of the Epic called the Story of Oedipus clearly shows.

3.
The authors of the Story of Oedipus (say) of the Sphinx: “But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys.”