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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Vivid, poetic language, the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great triology are captured in the Paul Roche translation. Here is an eloquent story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down by pride from wealth and power, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder.
Author
Publisher
Floating Press, The
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Oedipus the King is Sophocles' legendary rendition of the myth of the great king Oedipus, perhaps the best known of all of the Greek Tragedies. When an oracle foretells that the young prince Oedipus will grow up to murder his father he is cast out of the kingdom by the king who hopes by doing so that he will avoid his fate. Oedipus grows up and many years later, not knowing his own identity, or the identity of his father, meets him at a crossroad...
Author
Publisher
AmazonClassics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In Oedipus the King, a plague is ravaging the city of Thebes. Oedipus learns that the polluting curse was triggered by the murder of his predecessor, Laïus. Determined to find the killer and end the threat to his people, Oedipus rages toward the truth and confronts an oracle’s haunting prophecy.
Oedipus at Colonus finds the king of Thebes now a blinded beggar banished
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