Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539927198)

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

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

$13.20
Format: Paperback
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The three plays of this book (Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or by its Latin title Oedipus Rex), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone), also known as the Theban plays, concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. Each of the plays relates to the tale of the mythological Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother without knowledge that they were his parents. His family is fated to be doomed for three generations. Sophocles wrote the three plays for separate festival competitions, many years apart. Not only are the Theban plays not a true trilogy (three plays presented as a continuous narrative) but they are not even an intentional series and contain some inconsistencies among them. He also wrote other plays having to do with Thebes, such as the Epigoni, of which only fragments have survived.

Author: Francis Storr,Sophocles
ISBN-10: 1539927199
ISBN-13: 9781539927198
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2016
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Francis Storr
By Francis Storr
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Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. He wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.

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