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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is one of those classics that I know about through pop culture but have never actually read. (It’s officially been on my to-read list since 2008, so it took me “only” 15 years to get around to it.) It’s a lot more visceral than I was expecting, even though the famous “Oedipus gouges out his own eyes” scene happens off stage. The way the chorus describes it is stomach-churning, especially for someone like me who is very eye-injury-phobic. I haven’t read very many ancient Greek plays, so I’m still not entirely clear on the role of the chorus; can they be seen by the main actors in the play? Are they part of the story? Or do they come and go? I’ll have to do some more research on this subject. Belongs to SeriesOedipus Cycle (1) Belongs to Publisher Series — 11 more L'esparver clàssic (22) insel taschenbuch (0015) Little Blue Books (511) The Pocket Library (PL-75) Reader's Enrichment Series (RE 124) Wereldbibliotheek (522) Is contained inThe Harvard Classics [50 Volume Set] by Charles William Eliot (indirect) De grekiska tragedierna : Aiskylos, Sofokles, Euripides ; i översättning av Tord Bæckström by Aischylos The Complete Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles (indirect) The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes by Encyclopedia Britannica (indirect) Great Books Of The Western World - 54 Volume Set, Incl. 10 Vols of Great Ideas Program & 10 Volumes Gateway To Great Books by Robert Maynard Hutchins (indirect) GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD--54 Volumes 27 volumes 1961-1987 GREAT IDEAS TODAY (Yearbooks) 10 volumes GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS 10 volumes GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM. Total 101 Volumes. by Robert Maynard Hutchins (indirect) The Complete Greek tragedies by David Grene (indirect) Is retold inHas the adaptationInspiredHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsNotable Lists
A king tries in vain to avert a horrific fate in this epic tragedy, widely considered a masterpiece. Oedipus was warned that his destiny is for him to kill his father and marry his mother. So he fled his home and has now become the king of Thebes, taking the throne after the death of its previous occupant, Laius, and marrying his widow, Jocasta. But just as Laius long ago labored to defy a prophecy and ultimately failed, so will Oedipus, in this masterpiece by the great tragedian of ancient Greece. No library descriptions found. |
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incest, self-mutilation and suicide. It is amazing to think that this play was performed nearly 2,500 years ago, five times longer ago than Shakespeare's plays. Put another way, when Jesus was born and lived, this play was as far in the past to people living then as Shakespeare's plays are to us now in 2024. It won second prize in a competition in 429 BC to a play now lost to us written by a nephew of Euripides, one of the other two most prominent Greek tragic writers of the era. What huge influence this and other plays of the era have had on the literature of the past two and a half millennia. ( )