The Theban Plays
King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
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- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
30 December 1963
Summary
The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind’s struggle against fate.
KING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn’t realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself. It is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath.
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140440034 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140440038 |
| Author: | Sophocles, E. Watling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 December 1963 |
| Weight: | 137g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“[Oedipus the King] is Sophocles’ most famous play and the most celebrated play of Greek drama … Aristotle cites it as the best model for a tragic plot … Freud recognized the play’s power to dramatize the process by which we uncover hidden truths about ourselves … Sophocles is more interested in how Oedipus pieces together the isolated fragments of his past to discover who and what he is and in tracing the hero’s response to this new vision of himself.”—from the Introduction by Charles Segal
About The Author
Sophocles
Sophocles was born in 496 BC. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire. He wrote over a hundred plays, drawing on a wide and varied range of themes.
E.F. Watling translated a range of Greek and Roman plays, including the seven plays of Sophocles and the tragedies of Seneca.
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