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Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522715991
Oedipus the King is the first tragic play in Sophocles' classic Oedipus trilogy. The plays tells the story of a man who eventually becomes the King of Thebes while fulfilling an extremely tragic prophecy.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547011286
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 : Mariner Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 015602764X
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438114101
A collection of eight critical essays on the classical tragedy, arranged in the chronological order of their original publication.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108419518
For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we find in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. This new full-scale edition of that classic play - the first in any language since 1883 - offers a freshly constituted text based on consultation of manuscripts ancient and mediaeval. The Introduction explores the play's dating and production, its creative engagement with pre-Sophoclean versions, its major themes, and its reception during antiquity. The Commentary offers a detailed analysis, line by line and scene by scene, of the play's language, staging, and dramatic impact. The translation incorporated into the commentary ensures that the book will be accessible to all readers interested in what is arguably the greatest Greek tragedy of all.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486114972
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 : Sirish Rao
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Blind
ISBN : 0892367644
Presents a retelling of the classic Greek tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother and then puts out his own eyes when he discovers the truth.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521851770
A revised edition of the bestselling commentary on this most important of ancient plays.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781504062831
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 : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195054938
Dramatizes the story of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother.
Author : Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190669461
Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. Faced with a damning prophecy, he tries to take destiny into his own hands and fails. Realizing this, he struggles at the end of his life for a serenity that seems to elude him. In his last misery, he is said to illustrate the tragic lament that it is better not to be born, or, once born, better to die young than to live into old age. Such are the themes a set of powerful thinkers take on in this volume-self-knowledge, self-deception, destiny, the value of a human life. There are depths to the Oedipus tragedies that only philosophers can plumb; readers who know the plays will be startled by what they find in this volume. There is nothing in literature to compare with the Oedipus plays of Sophocles that let us see the same basic myth through different lenses. The first play was the product of a poet in vibrant late middle age, the second of a man who was probably in his eighties, with the vision of a very old poet still at the height of his powers. In the volume's introduciton, Paul Woodruff provides historical backdrop to Sophocles and the plays, and connections to the contributions by philosophers and classicists that follow.
Author : Yulia Kovas,Fatos Selita
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781349960484
This book explores the answers to fundamental questions about the human mind and human behaviour with the help of two ancient texts. The first is Oedipus Rex (Oedipus Tyrannus) by Sophocles, written in the 5th century BCE. The second is human DNA, with its origins around 4 billion years ago, and continuously revised by chance and evolution. With Sophocles as a guide, the authors take a journey into the Genomic era, an age marked by ever-expanding insights into the human genome. Over the course of this journey, the book explores themes of free will, fate, and chance; prediction, misinterpretation, and the burden that comes with knowledge of the future; self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecies; the forces that contribute to similarities and differences among people; roots and lineage; and the judgement of oneself and others. Using Oedipus Rex as its lens, this novel work provides an engaging overview of behavioural genetics that demonstrates its relevance across the humanities and the social and life sciences. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of genetics, education, psychology, sociology, and law.
Author : Mark R. Anspach
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781628953787
Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. The Greek word for tragedy means “goat song.” Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him “the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize.” The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus. This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141905648
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 : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783986772864
Oedipus King of Thebes Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: , pronounced [oidípos týrannos]), 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. It is thought to have been renamed Oedipus Tyrannus to distinguish it from another of Sophocles's plays, Oedipus at Colonus. In antiquity, the term "tyrant" referred to a ruler with no legitimate claim to rule, but it did not necessarily have a negative connotation