Oedipus the King
A New Translation
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2012
Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus the King is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg.
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- Who it’s for
- Divine manipulation and human weakness give this celebrated Greek tragedy its enduring tension.
- Themes
- Fate, Divine manipulation, Human weakness
- Genres
- Classical Plays
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Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus the King is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg.
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Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, Oedipus the King is the ancient world’s most shocking and memorable tragedy; the story of Thebes’s resilient hero and his royal family brought to hellish ruin by fate, manipulation of the Olympian gods, and all-too-human weakness. This is Sophocles, vibrant and alive, for a new generation.
Fate and Frailty
Divine manipulation and human weakness give this celebrated Greek tragedy its enduring tension.
Come here for
- A layered clash of fate, divine force, and human weakness
- The enduring intensity of ancient Greek drama
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- A vivid new translation by poet Robert Bagg
- A serious tragedy that brings human frailty into sharp focus
Where it sits
| Classical Plays | 99% |
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Publisher categories
- French Plays
- Classical Plays
- Ancient Greece
- German Literary Collections
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- German Literary Criticism
- Books & Reading
- Drama Criticism
- Poetry Criticism
- Authors
- Sophocles
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 7, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Fate · Divine manipulation · Human weakness
- Reading lane
- French Plays