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The Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Theban Plays

Sophocles,Peter Meineck,Paul Woodruff
Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles,Peter Meineck,Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872205851

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Theban Plays by Sophocles,Peter Meineck,Paul Woodruff Pdf

This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teacher of Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts.

The Three Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517506891

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The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

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 : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585106264

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The Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

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.

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 : 51,9 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.

The Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895418

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The Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

Sophocles’ Theban Plays—Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—lie at the core of the Western literary canon. They are extensively translated, universally taught, and frequently performed. Chronicling the downfall of Oedipus, the legendary king of Thebes, and his descendants, the Theban Plays are as relevant to present-day thought about love, duty, patriotism, family, and war as when they were written 2,500 years ago. Recent translations of the plays, while linguistically correct, often fail to capture the beauty of Sophocles’ original words. In combining the skills of a distinguished poet, Ruth Fainlight, and an eminent classical scholar, Robert J. Littman, this new edition of the Theban Plays is both a major work of poetry and a faithful translation of the original works. Thoughtful introductions, extensive notes, and glossaries frame each of the plays within their historical contexts and illuminate important themes, mythological roots, and previous interpretations. This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.

The Three Theban Plays

Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984-02-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140444254

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The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

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.

Three Theban Plays

Sophocles
Three Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antigone (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 1840221445

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Three Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

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.

Oedipus the King

Sophocles
Oedipus the King Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522715991

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles Pdf

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.

Three Other Theban Plays

Aeschylus,Euripides
Three Other Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Aeschylus,Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781624664731

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Three Other Theban Plays by Aeschylus,Euripides Pdf

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Greek poets, one explored in a now lost epic cycle, as well as several other surviving tragedies. With a rich Introduction that sets three of these plays within the larger contexts of Theban legend and of Greek tragedy in performance, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig’s annotated translation of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Euripides' Suppliants, and Euripides' Phoenician Women offers a brilliant constellation of less familiar Theban plays—those dealing with the war between Oedipus’ sons, its casualties, and survivors.

Sophocles: the Theban Plays

Sophocles
Sophocles the Theban Plays Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Focus
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015060000802

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Sophocles: the Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

English translations of three of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus, and Antigone. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

The Complete Sophocles

Sophocles
The Complete Sophocles Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.

Oedipus the King and Antigone

Sophocles
Oedipus the King and Antigone Book PDF

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : 53,8 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).