Sophocles: Four Tragedies Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles: Four Tragedies Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
- ISBN 13:
9780199286232
- ISBN 10:
019928623X
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/19/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics. Each play is accompanied by an introduction and substantial notes on points of fact and interpretation, drawing on the translator's many years of lecturing on Sophocles at the University of Oxford.
Oedipus the King, often regarded as the archetypal tragedy, follows Oedipus, the 'man of sorrow', who has unwittingly chosen to enact his prophesied course by murdering his father and marrying his mother.
Aias (or Ajax) tells the story of the warrior whose larger-than-life greatness brings him to harrowing humiliation and then to honourable burial.
Philoctetes sees a once-noble hero, nursing his resentment during ten years in marooned isolation, eventually restored to glory at Troy.
Oedipus at Colonus depicts the blind Oedipus towards the end of his life wandering as a beggar, but rewarded finally with revenge and a sublime death.