The Theban Plays: "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus", "Antigone" (Everyman's Library Classics)

Sophocles Charles Segal David Grene

ISBN 10: 1857150937 / ISBN 13: 9781857150933

Published by Everyman, 1994

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222 pages. 8.31x5.24x0.79 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Theban Plays: "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus", "Antigone" (Everyman's Library Classics)
• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857150937
• ISBN 13: 9781857150933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most accessible and may have had the most extensive influence on Western Culture, not least because Freud took from the Theban Plays the name and the idea of the Oedipus complex. Of Sophocles' hundred odd plays only seven have survived, of which three are printed here. The Theban Plays make up a trilogy as was common at the time, in which the story of Oedipus' downfall and its aftermath is explored in three stages.

Synopsis

As was common at the time, the Theban Plays make up a trilogy in which the story of Oedipus's downfall and its aftermath are explored in three stages.