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Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780156027649
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781700021755
At the outset of the play, Oedipus is the beloved ruler of the city of Thebes, whose citizens have been stricken by a plague. Consulting the Delphic oracle, Oedipus is told that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Queen Jocasta's first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Oedipus resolves to find Laius's killer. His investigation turns into an obsessive reconstruction of his own hidden past when he discovers that the old man he killed when he first approached Thebes as a youth was none other than Laius. At the end, Jocasta hangs herself in shame, and the guilt-stricken Oedipus blinds himself.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 048611497X
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 : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN :
"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 : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1973-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141905646
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 : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1504062833
The ancient Greek tragedy about the exiled king’s final days—and the power struggle between his two sons. The second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Accompanied by his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he takes up residence in the village of Colonus near Athens—where the locals fear his very presence will curse them. Nonetheless they allow him to stay, and Ismene informs him his sons are battling each other for the throne of Thebes. An oracle has pronounced that the location of their disgraced father’s final resting place will determine which of them is to prevail. Unfortunately, an old enemy has his own plans for the burial, in this heart-wrenching play about two generations plagued by misfortune from the world’s great ancient Greek tragedian.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780195054934
Dramatizes the story of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother.
Author : Euripides
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1885
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2019-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781671643901
Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply Oedipus, as it is referred to by Aristotle in the Poetics.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192806858
This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics.