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The three Theban plays / Sophocles ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.
- Title
- The three Theban plays / Sophocles ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.
- Author
- Sophocles
- Publication
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1984.
- ©1984
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PA4414.A2 F3 1984 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 430 pages : genealogical table; 18 cm
- Summary
- Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--Are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English. 1984
- Penguin classics
- Alternative Title
- Works. 1984
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Translations
- Tragedies
- Théâtre.
- Note
- Translated from the classical Greek.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-424).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Classical Greek.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Antigone -- Oedipus the King -- Oedipus at Colonus.
- ISBN
- 9780140444254
- 0140444254
- LCCN
- 83013053
- OCLC
- 9685728
- SCSB-12898770
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library