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Oedipus

Sophocles
Barcode 9781854596109
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Release Date: 23/02/1999

Genre: Poetry & Drama
Translator: Kenneth McLeish
Label: Nick Hern Books
Series: Drama Classics
Contributors: Kenneth McLeish (Translated by)
Language: English
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.


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The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.

This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, contains two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, in English translations by Kenneth McLeish.

It also includes an introduction to the plays.