The Authentic Orthography
Fate, Riddles, Thebes · Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)
Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison
Οἰδίπους
The name in its original Greek form. Oidípous (Οἰδίπους) is attested in the source tradition — “Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)”. Its diphthongs and acute accents carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
oidipous
Reduced to plain oidipous, the name loses everything that made it specific: diphthongs and acute accents. What remains is an ASCII string that machines can parse but that no longer speaks with its original voice.
Oidípous
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII flattened. Oidípous restores diphthongs and acute accents, returning the name to its original written dignity. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
Oidípous.com → xn--oidpous-9ya.com
The non-ASCII characters in Oidípous are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Oidípous.
How Oidípous is preserved in writing
A bespoke provenance study for Oidípous is being prepared by the PUNICODEX scholarly team.
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Oidípous
Restores Οἰδίπους. The full Unicode restoration. oidípous.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
oidipous
Flattens Οἰδίπους. The plain ASCII fallback — what DNS and legacy systems see.
How Oidípous was spoken
Fate, Riddles, Thebes
Oidípous belongs to the Greek tradition, where it is associated with fate, riddles, thebes.
The central domain of Oidípous in the greek tradition.
The name signifies "Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)".
The restoration Oidípous recovers what plain ASCII oidipous flattens.
Attested in the sources as Οἰδίπους.
Stories of Oidípous
The stories of Oidípous circulate within the Greek corpus, where the figure embodies fate, riddles, thebes.
Oidípous is attested in the canonical Greek sources as a figure associated with fate, riddles, thebes.
The name means "Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
Oidípous embodies fate, riddles, thebes in the Greek imagination. The name's restoration is not merely cosmetic: it recovers the stress, length, and script that make the figure recognizable in the source tradition.
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