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The Theban Plays: Oedipus the Tyrant; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

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Description for The Theban Plays: Oedipus the Tyrant; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone Paperback. Series: Agora Editions. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.

The timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles—Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—have fascinated and moved audiences and readers across the ages with their haunting plots and their unforgettable heroes and heroines. Now, following the best texts faithfully, and translating the key moral, religious, and political terminology of the plays accurately and consistently, Peter J. Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle allow contemporary readers to study the most literally exact reproductions of precisely what Sophocles wrote, rendered in readily comprehensible English.These translations enable readers to engage the Theban plays of Sophocles in their full, authentic complexity, and to study with precision ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Agora Editions
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478710
SKU
V9780801478710
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99-1

About Sophocles
Peter J. Ahrensdorf is James Sprunt Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Professor of Classics at Davidson College. He is the author of Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization, Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays, and The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy: An Interpretation ... Read more

Reviews for The Theban Plays: Oedipus the Tyrant; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
In emphasizing the political elements of the plays, Professors Ahrensdorf and Pangle spur their readers — our students — to engage deeply with Sophocles' masterpieces....Their incisive reflections interrogate the texts in original and thought-provoking ways, particularly in regard to their political elements. Even where we disagree with them, their ideas merit serious consideration.... The translators situate Oedipus the Tyrant in ... Read more

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