The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

The Theban Plays #1–3

Sophocles with Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles

430 pages first pub -450 (editions)

fiction classics play dark reflective medium-paced

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The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate. KING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed, and th...

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