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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles : Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone
Author: Sophocles, Paul Roche (Translator)
To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780452011670
ISBN-10: 0452011671
Publication Date: 5/1/1996
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Plume
Book Type: Paperback
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This book contains: The Fall of the House of Oedipus; Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colunus, Antigone.

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Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche, in vivid poetic language, captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. Here, for the modern reader, is the eloquent story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down by pride from wealth and power, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder.


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