The Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus The King - Oedipus At Colonus (hardcover) (Johns Hopkins New Translations From Antiquity Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe 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
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 100 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141905648
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780140440034
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Addition:
- 06/13/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Sophocles, E. Watling
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater
- Reading Age:
- 18 and up
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- E. Watling
- Translator:
- E. Watling