Sophoclis Oedipus Rex — Scriptorium Liberum

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

✍ Roger D. Dawe 📂 Library 📅 1982 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, "Who am I?" The play, a story of a king who acting ent

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

📁 Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

✍ David Mulroy 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 University of Wisconsin Press 🌐 English

Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies, a profound meditation on the human condition. The story of the mythological king, who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother, has resonated in world culture for almost 2,500 years. But Sophocles’ drama as originally performed was

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (Bloom's Guides)

📁 Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (Bloom's Guides)

✍ Harold Bloom 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Blooms Literary Criticism 🌐 English

'Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors w

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (Bloom's Modern C

📁 Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

✍ Harold Bloom 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Chelsea House Publications 🌐 English

'Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors w

Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy

📁 Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy

✍ Sophocles 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 ICON Group International, Inc. 🌐 English

This edition is written in English. However, there is a running French thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy. This edition would be useful i

Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus

📁 Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus

✍ Jennifer R. March 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Liverpool University Press 🌐 English

Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for the tight unity of its plot; every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect. The action is concentrated into a single day in Oedipus'