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The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

By Sophocles, E. F. Watling (Translator), E. F. Watling (Introduction)
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By Sophocles, E. F. Watling (Translator), E. F. Watling (Introduction)
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‘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 tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. With profound insights into the human condition, it is...

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