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The Three Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984-02-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140444254

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The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the surge and majesty of his choruses and, above all, the agonies and triumphs of his characters. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by the renowned classicist Bernard Knox. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141905648

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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

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus (Theban Plays of Sophocles - Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus)

Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays Antigone Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Theban Plays of Sophocles Antigone Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986996662

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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus (Theban Plays of Sophocles - Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus) by Sophocles Pdf

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." Sophocles, Antigone

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

Sophocles
Plays of Sophocles Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

The Three Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517506891

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The Three Theban Plays - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone - Sophocles - The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of the drama, most importantly by adding a third actor, thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus. 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.

The Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585106264

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This anthology includes English translations of three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous, and Oidipous at Colonus. The trilogy includes an introductory essay on Sophocles life, ancient theatre, and the mythic and religious background of the plays. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a single play edition. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Oedipus the King

Sophocles
Oedipus the King Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297635450

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Three Theban Plays

Sophocles
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Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antigone (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 1840221445

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The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others. It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother, a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them. But these plays are not about fate, and not about irony. They are about character, choice and consequence. In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law, and die for it, rather than transgress the eternal, unwritten laws of the gods. Oedipus the Tyrant is the story of a ruler destroyed by those qualities - pride, determination and belief in his own abilities - which made him ruler in the first place. Finally, in Oedipus at Colonus, written late in Sophocles' life, the aged and blinded king achieves a personal reconciliation, but at a cost - a son who will die in battle against his country, and a daughter who will die burying her brother.

The Complete Sophocles

Sophocles
The Complete Sophocles Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199840991

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The Complete Sophocles by Sophocles Pdf

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the greatest classical dramarists: Electra, translated by Anne Carson and Michael Shaw, a gripping story of revenge, manipulation, and the often tense conflict of the human spirit; Aias, translated by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear, an account of the heroic suicide of the Trojan war hero better known as Ajax; Philoctetes, translated by Carl Phillips and Diskin Clay, a morally complex and penetrating play about the conflict between personal integrity and public duty; and The Women of Trachis, translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory W. Dickerson, an urgent tale of mutability in a universe of precipitous change. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes Book PDF

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780195070071

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Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus Pdf

The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.

Oedipus the King and Antigone

Sophocles
Oedipus the King and Antigone Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118818640

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Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles Pdf

Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-Oedipus the King and Antigone-for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of Greek theater. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Sophocles and a bibliography.

Plays

Sophocles
Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985041901

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Plays by Sophocles Pdf

Sophocles (born c. 496 bc, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]-died 406, Athens) was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. Not many things are known about his life other than that he was wealthy, well educated and wrote about one hundred and twenty three plays (of which few are extant). One of his best known plays is 'Oedipus the King' (Oedipus Rex).

Sophocles

Sophocles
Sophocles Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1417739134

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Sophocles by Sophocles Pdf

Collects the full texts of Sophocles' seven ancient Greek plays, including updated translations of Oedipus The King, Antigone, and The Women Of Trachis, as well as stage directions and prefaces to each play

Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles
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Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Lysistrata and Other Plays

Aristophanes
Lysistrata and Other Plays Book PDF

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141907017

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Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein