The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Sophocles I: Antigone/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Sophocles I contains the plays 'Antigone,' translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; 'Oedipus the King,' translated by David Grene; and 'Oedipus at Colonus,' translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek

The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Sophocles)(Paperback)

'O Light May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood ' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. King Oedipus

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)(Paperback)

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most enduring and timeless

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Sophocles)(Paperback)

This volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy,

Oedipus the King (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Since it was first performed in Athens in the 420s BC, Oedipus the King has been widely regarded as Sophocles' greatest tragedy and one of the foundation stones of western drama. Taken as a model by Aristotle in his Poetics, it became a yardstick for future generations. Since the play's rediscovery

Oedipus the King: Sophocles (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order

Oedipus Tyrannos (Sophocles)(Paperback / softback)

Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)(Paperback)

'Sophocles ... created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama ...' With these words Dr Dawe sets out the importance of Oedipus Rex. He investigates why it has for so long fascinated the human mind, devoting his introduction

Greek Tragedy (Aeschylus)(Paperback)

Three masterpieces of classical tragedy Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. This volume also includes extracts from Aristophanes'

The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban Plays (Burian Peter)(Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek inorder to

Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History (Velikovsky Immanuel)(Paperback)

Who hasn't heard of him - Oedipus, the tragic figure from Greek mythology whose shocking fate has moved so many generations, inspired so many writers and even found his way into modern psychology through Sigmund Freud?Is it conceivable that this figure and his fate was not a creation of human fancy

Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex (Perelberg Rosine Jozef)(Paperback)

Terry Deary's Best Ever Greek Legends (Deary Terry)(Paperback / softback)

From killer king Oedipus to monstrous Medusa's horrible hair, Terry Deary presents the classic Greek legends ... with a modern twist. Heracles sits his SATs and the wife of Zeus spills the beans about her husband. With fact files on furies, harpies and other killer creatures and the evils of the

Antigone, Interrupted (Honig Bonnie)(Paperback)

Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing

Fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient

Antigone (Sophocles)(Paperback)

The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies his edict. Creon condemns the young woman, his niece, to

Children of Jocasta (Haynes Natalie)(Paperback / softback)

From the Women's Prize shortlisted author Natalie Haynes comes a stunning reimagining of the Oedipus and Antigone myths, revealing a new side of an ancient story

The Complete Plays of Sophocles (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheComplete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles'bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, andretaining the textual authenticity

Love, Guilt and Reparation (Klein Melanie)(Paperback / softback)

In the final paper on the Oedipus complex, Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development, extending Freud`s analysis of the Oedipus complex and laying a basis for her own subsequent conceptualising of the paranoid-schizoid position in the first six months of

My Oedipus Complex - and Other Stories (O'Connor Frank)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her

The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Lefkowitz Mary)(Paperback)

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most

The Plays of Sophocles (Garvie A. F.)(Paperback)

The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. The seven extant plays, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra,

Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama (Roisman Hanna M.)(Paperback)

The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra,