The Theban Plays - Penguin Classics

King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe 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

ISBN:	9780140440034
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	26 Apr 1973
DEWEY:	882.01
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	168
Weight:	136g
Height:	196mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	11mm

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