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2. Autoenucleation - Wikipedia

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   A famous case of autoenucleation can be found in Greek mythology: Oedipus, according to Sophocles's tragedy Oedipus Rex, gouged his own eyes out after discovering he had married his mother. In the 13th century, Marco Polo witnessed a pious Baghdad carpenter who enucleated his right eye for sinful thoughts of a young female customer.

3. Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia

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   But upon discovering the lifeless queen, Oedipus took her down, and removing the long gold pins from her dress, he gouged out his own eyes in despair. Bénigne Gagneraux, The Blind Oedipus Commending his Children to the Gods. The blinded king now exits the palace, and begs to be exiled. Creon enters, saying that Oedipus shall be taken into the ...

4. Blinding (punishment) - Wikipedia

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   Oedipus gouged out his own eyes after accidentally fulfilling the prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother. [3] In the Bible, Samson was blinded upon his capture by the Philistines. [4] Early Christians were often blinded as a penalty for their beliefs. [5] For example, Saint Lucy's torturers tore out her eyes. [6]

5. Oedipus Rex (1967 film) - Wikipedia

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   Oedipus prods him to continue and Tiresias tells him that Oedipus is the killer. Oedipus banishes him from the city believing that his brother-in-law Creon put him up to it in order to steal the throne. Jocasta reveals to Oedipus that Laius was killed at the crossroads of Apollo's sacred road. She also tells him that the Oracle has been wrong ...

6. Oedipus the King (film) - Wikipedia

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   Oedipus the King is a 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex, directed and co-written by Philip Saville.It stars Christopher Plummer as the title character, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, Richard Johnson as Creon and Donald Sutherland as the leading member of the Chorus, though the latter's voice was dubbed by Valentine Dyall.

7. Cultural depictions of blindness - Wikipedia

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   Upon discovering that he has unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, Oedipus bursts into his wife's bed-chamber and discovers that she has hanged herself. Taking the brooches from her dress, he drives the pins into his eyes, exclaiming: "You have looked enough upon those you ought never to have looked upon". [ 1 ]

8. Ex-meth user who gouged her own eyeballs out while high ... - AOL

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   Kaylee Muthart, 26, was left permanently blinded when she ripped out her eyes with her bare hands and squished them believing the act of self-harm would save the world after snorting and injecting ...

9. Night Journey (ballet) - Wikipedia

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   In the original production, Oedipus hoisted and rotated a painted plywood eye, blue on one side, bloodied on the other, as a portent of his fate. The prop was later eliminated as unnecessarily redundant. [8] The desolate king removes the brooch fastening Jocasta's cloak, gouging out his eyes and groping his way offstage.