Oedipus the King
$18.42
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2007
Summary
Oedipus the King: A Tragedy of Fate and Self-Discovery
The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.
A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416500339 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416500332 |
| Series: | Enriched Classics |
| Author: | Sophocles |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 77g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 106mm x 13mm |
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Sophocles
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.
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