The Oedipus of Plautus

The Oedipus Trilogy — Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

✍ Sophocles 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Lerner Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 278 KB

Disregard for messages from the oracles and gods doesn't turn out well for characters in Greek stories, and Oedipus is no exception. Encompassing murder and betrayal, incest and patricide, this set of three plays follows the life of a man doomed to suffer from birth. Sophocles wrote these classic Gr

Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone

✍ Sophocles 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 eBooksLib 🌐 English ⚖ 77 KB

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,

Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

✍ Oedipus Trilogy 📂 Fiction 🏛 Duke Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 80 KB

*Oedipus the King* is Sophocles' legendary rendition of the myth of the great king Oedipus, perhaps the best known of all of the Greek Tragedies. When an oracle foretells that the young prince Oedipus will grow up to murder his father he is cast out of the kingdom by the king who hopes by doing so

Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

✍ Oedipus Trilogy 📂 Fiction 🏛 Duke Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 80 KB

*Oedipus the King* is Sophocles' legendary rendition of the myth of the great king Oedipus, perhaps the best known of all of the Greek Tragedies. When an oracle foretells that the young prince Oedipus will grow up to murder his father he is cast out of the kingdom by the king who hopes by doing so

The Prologues of Plautus

✍ Review by: E. W. Handley 📂 Article 📅 1956 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 345 KB

The Originality of Plautus

✍ Review by: W. Beare 📂 Article 📅 1957 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 338 KB