The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity) (Agora Editions) (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Sophocles

E.F. Watling (Translator) and E. Watling (Translator)

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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

  • ISBN10 0140440038
  • ISBN13 9780140440034
  • Publish Date 26 April 1973
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics