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Sophocles' Oidipous at Colonus | ||||
2003 revised • 1-58510-065-X • paper • 118 pages • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • $9.95 English translation. In Sophocles' last play, the aged playwright completes the story of Oedipus, who confronts the array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves. Includes maps, essays and suggestions for further reading. The text was revised in 2002 to be consistent with the other two volumes. Also available in the trilogy of all three of Sophocles Theban Plays. Click here. | About the Author | Contents | | ||||
In Oidipous at Colonus, Sophocles' last play, the aged playwright returned to complete the story of Oidipous, whose downfall he had dramatized some twenty years earlier in Oidipous the King. The result was a drama of extraordinary power, in which Oidipous, after years of suffering for his earlier deeds, pleads his own innocence and confronts the array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves. That death provides the drama with an unforgettable climax which is also a unique account of a mortal acquiring the sacred status and superhuman powers of a cult hero.
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Ruby Blondell is a professor of Classics at the University of Washington with special interest in Greek and Roman philosophy and literature. She has provided translations of Sophocles' Antigone, King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus and a collection of the three Sophocles: The Theban Plays.
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Sophocles' Oidipous at Colonus
