Author: SophoclesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Antigone of Sophocles. The Oxford Translation. Revised Edition, with Notes. With an Introduction by Edward Brooks, Jr
Author: SophoclesOedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Antigone of Sophocles. The Oxford Translation. Revised Edition, with Notes. With an Introduction by Edward Brooks
Author: SophoclesOedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Antigone
Author: SophoclesAntigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Author: SophoclesPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156110X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent 'hero'. Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family, Oedipus' determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide, and Electra's unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair. These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity, and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy. Their sonorous diction, economy, and sensitivity to the varied metres and modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra and Antigone of Sophocles
Author: SophoclesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Oedipus Rex
Author: SophoclesPublisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN: 1722524847
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
AN EPIC TRAGEDY, WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE A MASTERPIECE Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’ finest play is considered by many to be the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies. First produced sometime around 429 BC, it exhibits near-perfect harmony of character and action and is a work of extraordinary power which has circulated throughout world culture for thousands of years. After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son, he orders his wife Jocasta to kill his newly born son. Unable to do it, Jocasta entrusts a servant with the task instead, who takes the baby to a mountaintop and leaves him to die of exposure. A passing shepherd rescues the baby and names him Oedipus, taking him to Corinth where he is raised by the childless King Polybus as if it were his own. When Oedipus learns that he is not the biological son of Polybus, he seeks the counsel of the Oracle of Delphi who relates to him that he is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. The play is a unique combination of a murder mystery, a political thriller, and a psychological whodunit. This ironic story of patricide and incest tells how Oedipus, who has become King of Thebes, in order to stop a plague in his kingdom, is determined to find and punish the former king’s assassin, only to learn that the murderer is himself. At the end of the play, after this truth comes to light, the queen, Jocasta hangs herself while Oedipus, horrified at his patricide and incest, gouges out his own eyes in despair.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Oedipus the King
Author: SophoclesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768694
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice of millions of readers—for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. This new, stand-alone edition of Sophocles’ searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press’s classic series. Praise for David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies “This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.”—Kenneth Rexroth, Nation “The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. . . . They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.”—Times Education Supplement
Antigone ; Oedipus the King ; Electra
Author: SophoclesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019282922X
Category : Antigone (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Contains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies. Includes introduction, textual note, chronology, and explanatory notes.
Author: Sophocles