[PDF] Sophocles Oedipus At Colonus eBook

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
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"To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius." -Preface

Author : Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2019-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 048611497X

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The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Essential reading for English and classical studies majors.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1973-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141905646

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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 devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780156027649

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English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.

Author : Derek Mahon
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Pairing 'King Oedipus' and 'Oedipus at Colonus' creates a single play unified by the arc of the hero's tragic fate.

Author : Catullus
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0299177734

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Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus. David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy’s lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar.

Author : Lee Breuer
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559366788

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A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Plays of Sophocles is a set of three plays by Sophocles, an ancient Greek tragedian whose plays have survived until modern times. Included are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone.

Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 3110920484

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This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices. The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.