The Oedipus Cycle: A New Translation

The Oedipus Cycle: A New Translation image
ISBN-10:

0062119990

ISBN-13:

9780062119995

Author(s): SOPHOCLES
Released: Feb 28, 2012
Publisher: Harper-perennial
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
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Description:

Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone—together known as The Oedipus Cycle. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles’s immortal series of plays centers upon the royal family of Thebes, whose struggles for nobility and greatness lead paradoxically to their own tragic downfalls. Portraying humankind at its worst and most fallible even while exploring the heights of virtue and honor, the plays shine a searing light upon questions of fate and free will, destiny and responsibility, hubris and humility, honor and obligation, and more. Robert Bagg’s timely translations allow the power and depth of Sophocles’s masterpieces to shine through clearly to readers today.












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