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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS by Sophocles; Peter Meineck (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by); Paul Woodruff (Translator)
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripedes' Phoenissae.The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, encouraging discussion from psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic, and literary perspectives.Under ...Show more
Oedipus at Kolonos: A New Translation by Sophocles
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
The second chapter of Sophocles' spellbinding saga explores a fallen hero's redemption, as the aged king Oedipus surrenders himself to the will of the gods. Oedipus is an old man finally coming to terms with the terrible actions of his earlier life. Blind by his own hand and exiled from Thebes, Oedipus ...Show more
Sophocles - The Theban Plays - Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone by Sophocles; Charles Segal (Introduction); James P. Hogan (Notes)
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Everyman's Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastatin ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
(indent) Oedipus the King: A New Translation by Sophocles
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, "Oedipus the King" is the ancient world's most shocking and memorable play: the story of a city's beloved hero and his royal family brought to hellish ruin by fate, supernatural manipulation, and all-too-human weakness. With a plague ravishing Thebes, ...Show more
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