Sophocles

• Feb-2025
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Oedipus Trilogy  is a compelling examination of fate, free will, and human suffering within the framework of Greek tragedy. Sophocles explores the inescapable nature of destiny and the tragic consequences of human actions, portraying a world whe...

• Oct-2022
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in ord...

• Oct-2022
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...

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The Theban plays comprise three plays: Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. All three concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published u...

• Jan-2017
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Oedipus the King also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, fol...

• Jan-2017
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The Tragedies of Sophocles contains classics such as Oedipus and Antigone, translated into English in 1917....

• Nov-2016
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In this famous work from the origins of Greek thought, the hero Oedipus is sent to his death bed as an infant when an oracle predicts that he will kill his kingly father, and marry his mother. Being unable to kill him, the father passes him off to a ...

• Nov-2015
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Oedipus steps out of the royal palace of Thebes and is greeted by a procession of priests, who are in turn surrounded by the impoverished and sorrowful citizens of Thebes. The citizens carry branches wrapped in wool, which they offer to the gods as g...

• Nov-2015
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Philoctetes, is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles to have survived the ravages of...

• Nov-2015
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Sophocles, is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, S...

• Nov-2015
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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 O...

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• Jan-2014
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Sophocles I contains the plays "Antigone," translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; "Oedipus the King," translated by David Grene; and "Oedipus at Colonus," translated by Robert Fitzgerald.�Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momento...

• Dec-2013
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The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta,the eponymous Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury ...

• Aug-2013
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Oedipus at Colonus is the second play in Sophocles' Theban trilogy and presents a moving portrait of the aged Oedipus as he nears death. Having wandered in exile after the tragic revelations of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus arrives at Colonus, a sacred villag...

• Aug-2013
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The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall's new translation remains true to Sophocles original text while fashioning a language...

• Aug-2013
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Sophocles I contains the plays "Antigone," translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; "Oedipus the King," translated by David Grene; and "Oedipus at Colonus," translated by Robert Fitzgerald.�Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momento...

• Aug-2013
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Sophocles I contains the plays "Antigone," translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; "Oedipus the King," translated by David Grene; and "Oedipus at Colonus," translated by Robert Fitzgerald.�Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momento...

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Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before he was born, his parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle prophesied that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment...

• Nov-2011
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Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother, is the subject of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, a series of three tragedies that tell a connected story. Despite their antiquity, these timeless works bring up ...

• Dec-2009
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Only seven plays of the Ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles have survived to today. Sophocles is best known for his trilogy of dramas known as the "Three Theban Plays", which is comprised of the plays "Oedipus Rex", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone"...

• Nov-2009
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Electra by Sophocles is a riveting tragedy that delves into the torment of a daughter determined to avenge her father's murder. After the treacherous killing of King Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, Electra is left to mourn...

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