Sophocles

The Theban Plays (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Watling, E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone

Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty

The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority.

Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 1973
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141905648
• Artikelnr.: 38136725

Autorenporträt

Sophocles was born in 496 BC. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire. He wrote over a hundred plays, many of which are published as Penguin Classics, drawing on a wide and varied range of themes. E.F. Watling translated a range of Greek and Roman plays for Penguin, including the seven plays of Sophocles and the tragedies of Seneca.

Inhaltsangabe

The Theban PlaysIntroduction
The Theban Legend
King Oedipus
The Legend Continued
Oedipus at Colonus
The Legend Continued
Antigone
Notes to King Oedipus
Notes to Oedipus at Colonus
Notes to Antigone