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Oedipus the King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781700021755
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the play, Oedipus is the beloved ruler of the city of Thebes, whose citizens have been stricken by a plague. Consulting the Delphic oracle, Oedipus is told that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Queen Jocasta's first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Oedipus resolves to find Laius's killer. His investigation turns into an obsessive reconstruction of his own hidden past when he discovers that the old man he killed when he first approached Thebes as a youth was none other than Laius. At the end, Jocasta hangs herself in shame, and the guilt-stricken Oedipus blinds himself.

The Oedipus Cycle

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156027649
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Oedipus Cycle written by Sophocles and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1977 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.

Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus the King: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics)

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090353474
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus the King: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics) written by Sophocles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus, King of Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to ask advice of the oracle at Delphi, concerning a plague ravaging Thebes. Creon returns to report that the plague is the result of religious pollution, since the murderer of their former king, Laius, has never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for causing the plague.Oedipus summons the blind prophet Tiresias for help. When Tiresias arrives he claims to know the answers to Oedipus's questions, but refuses to speak, instead telling him to abandon his search. Oedipus is enraged by Tiresias' refusal, and verbally accuses him of complicity in Laius' murder. Outraged, Tiresias tells the king that Oedipus himself is the murderer ("You yourself are the criminal you seek"). Oedipus cannot see how this could be, and concludes that the prophet must have been paid off by Creon in an attempt to undermine him. The two argue vehemently, as Oedipus mocks Tiresias' lack of sight, and Tiresias in turn tells Oedipus that he himself is blind. Eventually Tiresias leaves, muttering darkly that when the murderer is discovered he shall be a native citizen of Thebes, brother and father to his own children, and son and husband to his own mother.

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

Author : David Kovacs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198854838
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: Oedipus the King written by David Kovacs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus the King is the best-known play we have from the pen of Sophocles and was recognized as a masterpiece in Aristotle's Poetics, which cites the play more often than any other as an example of how to write tragedy. The principal character is the king of a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, who consults Apollo at Delphi and is told that the plague will end only when those who killed the previous king, Laius, are found and punished. He launches an investigation, in the course of which he learns not only that he is himself the killer, but that Laius was his father and Laius' widow, whom he married, his own mother. As a result of this revelation Oedipus changes from being a respected king and conscientious investigator into a polluted and self-blinded outcast. This volume presents a highly-polished English verse translation of Sophocles' powerful play which renders both the beauty of his language and the horror of the events being dramatized. A detailed introduction and notes clearly elucidate how the plot is constructed and the meaning this construction implies, as well as how Sophocles ably concealed the fact that his characters act in ways which differ from what we expect in real life. It also addresses influential misinterpretations, thereby offering an accessible and authoritative introduction to the play that will be of benefit to a wide range of readers.

Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone written by Sophocles and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius." -Preface

Oedipus, King of Thebes

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oedipus, King of Thebes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oedipus the King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451686048
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall. A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: -A concise introduction that gives readers important background information -Timelines of significant events in Greek history and theater that provide the book’s historical context -An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations -Detailed explanatory notes -Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work -Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction -A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience Enriched Classics offers readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

Oedipus the King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195054934
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizes the story of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother.

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114109
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles' Oedipus Rex written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight critical essays on the classical tragedy, arranged in the chronological order of their original publication.

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Author : Almut-Barbara Renger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604811X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus and the Sphinx written by Almut-Barbara Renger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle—he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture’s central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known—Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account of this mythic encounter and how it deals with the concepts of liminality and otherness. Almut-Barbara Renger assesses the story’s meanings and functions in classical antiquity—from its presence in ancient vase painting to its absence in Sophocles’s tragedy—before arriving at two of its major reworkings in European modernity: the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and the poetics of Jean Cocteau. Through her readings, she highlights the ambiguous status of the Sphinx and reveals Oedipus himself to be a liminal creature, providing key insights into Sophocles’s portrayal and establishing a theoretical framework that organizes evaluations of the myth’s reception in the twentieth century. Revealing the narrative of Oedipus and the Sphinx to be the very paradigm of a key transition experienced by all of humankind, Renger situates myth between the competing claims of science and art in an engagement that has important implications for current debates in literary studies, psychoanalytic theory, cultural history, and aesthetics.

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521851777
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition of the bestselling commentary on this most important of ancient plays.

Oedipus at Colonus

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504062833
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Colonus written by Sophocles and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greek tragedy about the exiled king’s final days—and the power struggle between his two sons. The second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Accompanied by his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he takes up residence in the village of Colonus near Athens—where the locals fear his very presence will curse them. Nonetheless they allow him to stay, and Ismene informs him his sons are battling each other for the throne of Thebes. An oracle has pronounced that the location of their disgraced father’s final resting place will determine which of them is to prevail. Unfortunately, an old enemy has his own plans for the burial, in this heart-wrenching play about two generations plagued by misfortune from the world’s great ancient Greek tragedian.

Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era

Author : Yulia Kovas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1349960489
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era written by Yulia Kovas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the answers to fundamental questions about the human mind and human behaviour with the help of two ancient texts. The first is Oedipus Rex (Oedipus Tyrannus) by Sophocles, written in the 5th century BCE. The second is human DNA, with its origins around 4 billion years ago, and continuously revised by chance and evolution. With Sophocles as a guide, the authors take a journey into the Genomic era, an age marked by ever-expanding insights into the human genome. Over the course of this journey, the book explores themes of free will, fate, and chance; prediction, misinterpretation, and the burden that comes with knowledge of the future; self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecies; the forces that contribute to similarities and differences among people; roots and lineage; and the judgement of oneself and others. Using Oedipus Rex as its lens, this novel work provides an engaging overview of behavioural genetics that demonstrates its relevance across the humanities and the social and life sciences. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of genetics, education, psychology, sociology, and law.

Oedipus Tyrannus

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393098747
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus Tyrannus written by Sophocles and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1970 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen backgroundmaterials and essays. "Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey,Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripedes' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, encouragingdiscussion from psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic,and literary perspectives. Under the heading "Religion and Psychology" are included writings on theOedipus myth by Martin P. Nilsson, Meyer Fortes, Gordon M. Kirkwood,Thalia Phillies Feldman, and Sigmund Freud. The authors of the selections in "Criticism" are Aristotle, C. M. Bowra,R. C. Jebb, S. M. Adams, A. J. A. Waldock, Albin Lesky, Werner Jaeger,Friedrich Nietzsche, John Jones, D. W. Lucas, Bernard M. W. Knox,Cedric H. Whitman, Richmond Lattimore, Robert Cohen, Francis Fergusson,and H. D. F. Kitto. The special question of Oedipus's guilt or innocence is addressed inessays by J. T. Sheppard, Laszlo Versenyi, P. H. Vellacott, E. R.Dodds, Thomas Gould, and Philip Wheelwright.

Oedipus at Thebes

Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074239
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Thebes written by Bernard Knox and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.

Bacchantes

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Bacchantes written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles

Author : Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190669462
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles written by Paul Woodruff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. Faced with a damning prophecy, he tries to take destiny into his own hands and fails. Realizing this, he struggles at the end of his life for a serenity that seems to elude him. In his last misery, he is said to illustrate the tragic lament that it is better not to be born, or, once born, better to die young than to live into old age. Such are the themes a set of powerful thinkers take on in this volume-self-knowledge, self-deception, destiny, the value of a human life. There are depths to the Oedipus tragedies that only philosophers can plumb; readers who know the plays will be startled by what they find in this volume. There is nothing in literature to compare with the Oedipus plays of Sophocles that let us see the same basic myth through different lenses. The first play was the product of a poet in vibrant late middle age, the second of a man who was probably in his eighties, with the vision of a very old poet still at the height of his powers. In the volume's introduciton, Paul Woodruff provides historical backdrop to Sophocles and the plays, and connections to the contributions by philosophers and classicists that follow.