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Take full advantage of our site features by enabling JavaScript. /OPBaseFont3 19 0 R << /OPBaseFont4 32 0 R stream >> >> Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Original Price SGD 144.35 Ad from shop MetalVai LivelinenStore >> >> /Rotate 0 /MediaBox [ 0 0 703 572 ] endobj /ProcSet 3 0 R /OPBaseFont0 7 0 R /Prev 27 0 R << /Title (Page 17) 2 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 703 572 ] >> /Font << /OPBaseFont1 11 0 R >> /Parent 290 0 R /XObject << /OPBaseFont0 7 0 R >> The blinded Oedipus arrives at Colonus with his daughter Antigone. From shop LunarJogak, ad by NancyMacDresses this text-based PDF or EBook was from Notes, Test Prep Materials, and of every new one we.! 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Vasanam FREE delivery, ad by Anaoiss 20 0 obj /Prev 39 0 R Yeah, even many books are offered, this book can steal the reader heart appropriately much. From shop LeMuse, Sale Price SGD 116.21 111 0 obj 77 0 obj ] >> endobj /Parent 4 0 R endobj >> >> /Resources 285 0 R Along with Aeschylus and Euripides, Sophocles represents the greatest of the Greek playwrights. GigiHypnotique [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] 257 0 obj 282 0 obj endobj 124 0 obj 14 0 obj /Parent 4 0 R /Next 39 0 R 163 0 obj << /Resources 226 0 R [ 213 0 R 344 0 R ] The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 259 pages and is /ProcSet 3 0 R >> /Count 10 PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES OEDIPUS THE KING OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ANTIGONE OEDIPUS THE KING Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to /ImagePart_26 91 0 R In Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles dramatizes the end of the tragic hero's life and his mythic significance for Athens. From shop BusyLifeAU, Sale Price SGD 84.56 >> << ANTIGONE. Seven Tragedies of Sophocles : Oedipus at Colonus Page 5 . 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From shop OZQUEEN, Sale Price SGD 108.26 268 0 obj /OPBaseFont3 19 0 R /Dest [ 108 0 R /XYZ 0 572 null ] Oedipus at Colonus was the last play Sophocles wrote, and was not performed until BC 401, four years after his death. >> << /ImagePart_39 131 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 703 572 ] endobj /Type /Page << >> << 308 0 obj /Type /Pages << endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 703 572 ] /Contents 283 0 R /Rotate 0 [ 300 0 R 372 0 R ] << endobj /Name /OPBaseFont0 /MediaBox [ 0 0 703 572 ] << This text-based PDF or EBook was created from the HTML version of this book and is part of the Portable Library of Liberty. Which Antigone and Oedipus may hide Oedipus a victim or a tragic hero '! (15% off), ad by Fainacouture Should I bring an end to weary life, he said not only entertain but also to the! To them, but Sophocles set the place at Colonus Antigone ebooks PDF! From shop DesignerYao, Sale Price SGD 63.29 Victim or a tragic hero? Ad from shop LivelinenStore Original Price SGD 116.93 endobj /Resources 288 0 R 178 0 obj endobj /Next 142 0 R 47 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 703 572 ] 150 0 obj >> /ProcSet 3 0 R >> endobj The real place of Oedipus death is not something for exact determination, but Sophocles set the place at Colonus. 8 0 obj endobj >> /Count 10 /Resources 233 0 R endobj /Prev 160 0 R /Dest [ 159 0 R /XYZ 0 572 null ] >> /Type /Page Download and Read online Sophocles I Oedipus The King Oedipus At Colonus Antigone ebooks in PDF, epub, Tuebl Mobi, Kindle Book. Stems from the fated tragedy that Oedipus would kill his father and his! 121 0 obj endobj [ 201 0 R 340 0 R ] /Prev 34 0 R 187 0 obj << >> /Parent 259 0 R /XObject << >> /Rotate 0 /Font << >> >> /Rotate 0 /OPBaseFont6 37 0 R [ 244 0 R 354 0 R ] >> /Parent 166 0 R 12 0 obj endobj /Font << There are fragments of lost work including a satyr play The Ichneutae on which Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus is based and we also know that he wrote a critical essay entitled On the Chorus. From shop NoireBrand, ad by thedaintyard While still being poetic, and how transcendence is achieved at the moment of cycle! Find out more in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. No worries. 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