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The Three Theban Plays: Sophocles

The Three Theban Plays: Sophocles

Storr, F.
Sophocles

Paperback

Series: Theban Plays

Ancient GreeceGeneral PoetryPlays

ISBN10: 1721531203
ISBN13: 9781721531202
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 18 2018
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus The King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone by Sophocles. Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. The Theban plays consist of three plays: Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. All three plays concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published under a single cover. Sophocles, however, wrote the three plays for separate festival competitions, many years apart. Not only are the Theban plays not a true trilogy (three plays presented as a continuous narrative) but they are not even an intentional series and contain some inconsistencies among them. He also wrote other plays having to do with Thebes, such as the Epigoni, of which only fragments have survived.

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