Oedipus Rex Oedipus The King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297635450

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles Pdf

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Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486268774

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Pdf

One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies impact of agonizing events. Sophocles' finest play, Oedipus Rex ranks as a towering landmark of Western drama. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1671643909

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Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) by Sophocles Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3185261-10

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Pdf

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781504062831

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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles Pdf

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 : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780299282530

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Pdf

Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies, a profound meditation on the human condition. The story of the mythological king, who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother, has resonated in world culture for almost 2,500 years. But Sophocles’ drama as originally performed was much more than a great story—it was a superb poetic script and exciting theatrical experience. The actors spoke in pulsing rhythms with hypnotic forward momentum, making it hard for audiences to look away. Interspersed among the verbal rants and duels were energetic songs performed by the chorus. David Mulroy’s brilliant verse translation of Oedipus Rex recaptures the aesthetic power of Sophocles’ masterpiece while also achieving a highly accurate translation in clear, contemporary English. Speeches are rendered with the same kind of regular iambic rhythm that gave the Sophoclean originals their drive. The choral parts are translated as fluid rhymed songs. Mulroy also supplies an introduction, notes, and appendixes to provide helpful context for general readers and students.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547011286

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Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles Pdf

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 : Sophocles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1715
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : CHI:14845073

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Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles Pdf

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486114972

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The Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

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,Friedrich Hölderlin
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antigone (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 1852245433

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Hölderlin's Sophocles by Sophocles,Friedrich Hölderlin Pdf

These texts are stitched through with the vocabulary of excess, of madness, rage...those forces in his own psychology which, very soon, would carry him over the edge-David Constantine. Friedrich Holderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. Acclaimed British poet and translator (Michaux, Jaccottet) David Constantine's Selected Poems of Holderlin won him the 1997 European Poetry Translation. Now he has turns to Holderlin's versions of Sophocles, seeking to create an equivalent English for these extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. Holderlin's versions of these two plays came out in the spring of 1804 and were taken, by the learned, as conclusive proof of his insanity. Constantine has translated Holderlin's translations, carrying as much of their strangeness as possible into English.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781451686043

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles Pdf

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 and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: -A concise introduction that gives readers important background information -Timelines of significant events in Greek history and theater that provide the book’s historical context -An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations -Detailed explanatory notes -Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work -Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction -A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience Enriched Classics offers readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1090353472

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Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus the King: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics) by Sophocles Pdf

Oedipus, King of Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to ask advice of the oracle at Delphi, concerning a plague ravaging Thebes. Creon returns to report that the plague is the result of religious pollution, since the murderer of their former king, Laius, has never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for causing the plague.Oedipus summons the blind prophet Tiresias for help. When Tiresias arrives he claims to know the answers to Oedipus's questions, but refuses to speak, instead telling him to abandon his search. Oedipus is enraged by Tiresias' refusal, and verbally accuses him of complicity in Laius' murder. Outraged, Tiresias tells the king that Oedipus himself is the murderer ("You yourself are the criminal you seek"). Oedipus cannot see how this could be, and concludes that the prophet must have been paid off by Creon in an attempt to undermine him. The two argue vehemently, as Oedipus mocks Tiresias' lack of sight, and Tiresias in turn tells Oedipus that he himself is blind. Eventually Tiresias leaves, muttering darkly that when the murderer is discovered he shall be a native citizen of Thebes, brother and father to his own children, and son and husband to his own mother.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438114101

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Sophocles' Oedipus Rex by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of eight critical essays on the classical tragedy, arranged in the chronological order of their original publication.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195054938

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles Pdf

Dramatizes the story of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother.

Author : Sophocles,Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles
Publisher : Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 1599869519

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles,Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles Pdf

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. Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father's house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king. So he reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen. Children were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the city. Again the oracle was consulted and it bade them purge themselves of blood-guiltiness. Oedipus denounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to track out the criminal. Step by step it is brought home to him that he is the man. The closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.