PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES OEDIPUS THE KING OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ANTIGONE OEDIPUS THE KING Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT. Oedipus the king, oedipus at colonus (penguin classics) sophocles, bernard. The three theban plays by this penguin classics. Oedipus Penguin.

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✏Book Title: The Three Theban Plays✏Author: Sophocles✏Publisher: Penguin✏Release Date: 1984-02-07✏Pages: 432✏ISBN: ✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏The Three Theban Plays Book Summary: The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the surge and majesty of his choruses and, above all, the agonies and triumphs of his characters. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by the renowned classicist Bernard Knox.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ✏Book Title: Greek Tragedy✏Author: Aeschylus✏Publisher: Penguin UK✏Release Date: 2004-08-26✏Pages: 352✏ISBN: 712✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏Greek Tragedy Book Summary: Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra.

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children. ✏Book Title: Theban Plays✏Author: Sophocles✏Publisher: Hackett Publishing✏Release Date: 1947✏Pages: 304✏ISBN: 285✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏Theban Plays Book Summary: This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teacher of Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts.

✏Book Title: Metamorphoses✏Author: Ovid✏Publisher: Penguin UK✏Release Date: 2004-01-29✏Pages: 768✏ISBN: 256✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏Metamorphoses Book Summary: Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it. ✏Book Title: The Pot of Gold and Other Plays✏Author: Plautus✏Publisher: Penguin UK✏Release Date: 2004-07-01✏Pages: 272✏ISBN: 229✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏The Pot of Gold and Other Plays Book Summary: One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values.

✏Book Title: How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published✏Author: Ashley Lister✏Publisher: Hachette UK✏Release Date: 2019-12-19✏Pages: 256✏ISBN: 778✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published Book Summary: This book will help you plot like a pro, master the art of suspense like Poe, craft captivating dialogue like Twain and - most crucially - get your short stories published. How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published is the essential guide to writing short fiction. It takes the aspiring writer from their initial idea through to potential outlets for publication and pitching proposals to publishers.

Along the journey this guide considers the most important aspects of creative writing, such as character, plot, point of view, description and dialogue. All of these areas are illustrated with examples of classic fiction, and accompanied by exercises that will help every writer hone their natural skill and talent into the ability to craft compelling short stories. ✏Book Title: Aias Ajax✏Author: Sophocles✏Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA✏Release Date: 1999✏Pages: 100✏ISBN: 192✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏Aias Ajax Book Summary: Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays.

Brought boldly to life by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear's translation and contextualized by Herbert Golder's eloquent introduction, this early Sophoclean tragedy tells the story of the Homeric hero better known as Ajax, who was second only to Achilles among the Greek warriors. In Greek tradition, Aias figures as the archaic warrior who dies in shame after his betrayal by the Greeks. Sophocles turns tradition inside out, portraying Aias' suicide not as a disgrace but as heroism. He endows Aias suicide with a meaning radically different from previous versions of the Aias myth-Aias is not the hero whom time has passed by, but rather the man who steps beyond time. Most previous versions and interpretations have equivocated over Sophocles' bold vision.

This edition of Aias translates precisely that transformation of the hero from the bygone figure to the man who transcends time. ✏Book Title: The Bacchae and Other Plays✏Author: Euripides✏Publisher: Penguin UK✏Release Date: 2005✏Pages: 360✏ISBN: 262✏Available Language: English, Spanish, And French✏The Bacchae and Other Plays Book Summary: Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mothers doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.

Author: Sophocles (c 496-406 BC)Translator: Robert FaglesPublisher: Penguin Books (1984 Penguin Classics Edition)Bought from: Book DepositoryIntroductionSophocles is one of three classical Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote 123 plays but only seven survive intact. He is said to have won between 20-25 dramatic competitions in Athens. In comparison, Aeschylus won 14-15 competitions (sometimes placing second to Sophocles) while Euripides won only 4 or 5.The three plays collected in this volume, in order of writing, are Antigone (c 442 BC), Oedipus the King (c. 429 BC) and Oedipus at Colonus (c. In terms of the story’s internal timeline, the order is Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. Oedipus the King is the masterpiece of the three plays and is sometimes regarded as the greatest extant Greek tragedy and one of the greatest work of world literature.

The three plays are often published together under the title The Theban Plays. But Sophocles wrote the plays not as a unified trilogy but as parts of different sets. The three plays relate to the myth of Oedipus, king of Thebes (hence the title The Theban Plays). Thebes was a city founded by Cadmus and an important part of ancient Greek mythology.The events in The Theban Plays take place before the Trojan War (the dividing line between Greek mythology and Greek history). In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus meets the shade of Jocasta (named Epicasta in that play).

Homer briefly tells the story of Oedipus but with some differences from Sophocles’ version.Most people, even those who have never actually read the plays, will be familiar with the broad outline of the story of Oedipus. Indeed, the term “Oedipal” has entered modern English.What is the story about?Oedipus the King takes place in Thebes. As the play begins, Oedipus has been king of Thebes for many years. Lately, a plague has struck the city. Oedipus hears a prophecy from Apollo that the plague will only be eradicated if Laius’ killer is brought to justice.

Oedipus is determined to solve the cold case. As a result of his investigation, Oedipus himself unwittingly exposes the horrific sins he has committed. The familiar back story is retold. Laius and Jocasta ordered their infant son Oedipus killed because the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi had prophesied that Laius would be killed by his son. Oedipus ended up adopted in Corinth. An adult Oedipus himself received a prophecy that he would marry his mother and kill his father.

To avoid this fate, he fled his adopted parents (he did not know he was adopted). He ran into a man and his servants on a cross road and, after what must be one of the earliest examples of road rage, killed the man (who was actually Laius) and all his servants except one who would later positively identify Oedipus as Laius’ killer. Oedipus arrived in Thebes and, after solving the riddle of the Sphinx, he married Jocasta and becomes King of Thebes. Back in the present day, as the evidence lead ever closer to the horrific truth, first Tiresias, the blind seer and then Jocasta plead with Oedipus to stop his investigation.

Odysseus refuses to listen and finally learns the truth. Jocasta commits suicide from shame and Oedipus blinds himself.In Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus, accompanied by his daughter Antigone, goes to Colonus, a town near Athen (Colonus is believed to be Sophocles’ birthplace).

Oedipus has been exiled by his sons Eteocles and Polynices. In Colonus, he learns that that Apollo has prophesised that the place where he dies will be blessed. Oedipus is warmly welcomed by Theseus the legendary king of Athens and he gratefully offers to die in Colonus as his gift to Athens. In the meantime, back in Thebes, Jocasta’s brother Creon and Eteocles have banished Polynices. Polynices has fled to Argos and is amassing an army to attack Thebes.

Creon and Polynices track Oedipus down separately and each wants him to die in their respective territory. Oedipus rebuffs both of them.

He foresees that his sons will kill each other in the coming battle. Oedipus dies offstage in the presence of only Theseus. A grieving Antigone leaves for Thebes to convince Polynices to stop his march against Thebes.Antigone is set in Thebes and begins soon after the siege by the Seven Against Thebes led by Polynices has been repelled.

Polynices and Eteocles have killed each other, just as Oedipus has foreseen. Creon buries Eteocles but orders Polynices’ body to remain unburied on penalty of death. Antigone defies Creon and buries his brother.

Creon orders Antigone to be buried alive in a cave for disobeying his edict. Tiresias warns Creon to free Antigone and properly bury Polynices or bear the consequences, including losing a son of his own loins. Creon relents but he is too late. Antigone has committed suicide.

The tragedy is complete when Creon hears that his son Haemon, who was to have married Antigone has killed himself as has Eurydice, Creon’s wife and Haemon’s mother, after she loses her only son.ThemesOne of the main themes of the plays is the role fate plays in the lives of the main characters. The Olympian gods do not appear directly in the plays (unlike Homer’s poems).

But the will of these gods – or fate – affects the characters through the prophesies emanating from the Delphic oracle. The narrative is propelled by the separate but connected prophecies dispensed to Oedipus’ parents and himself. The characters do everything they can (ie. They exercise their free will) to avoid their fate but everything they do just seem to bring them closer and closer to fulfilling the prophecies.The big question is then whether anyone can be held morally responsible for his or her own actions if everything that happens is fated to happen.