The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics) in mass_market format by Sophocles. Published by Penguin in 1950. Available in Used - Acceptable condition.
Book Details
Format
mass_market
ISBN-10
0140440038
ISBN-13
9780140440034
Publication Date
Jun 1950
Item Weight
0.30 pounds
Length
7.76 inch
Width
5.04 inch
Height
0.43 inch
First Sentence
The place called Thebes lay in the central plain of Boeotia, part of the narrow tongue of land joining the Athenian country to the more northerly mainland.
Sophocles (circa. 496 BCE - 406 BCE) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 120 or more plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form, namely Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-awarded playwright in the dramatic competitions of ancient Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles competed in around thirty drama competitions; he won perhaps twenty four and never received lower than second place. Aeschylus won fourteen competitions and was defeated by Sophocles at times. Euripides won only four competitions.
