Three towering works of Greek tragedy — King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone — chart the inexorable destruction of a doomed royal dynasty. Drawing on the legends surrounding the house of Thebes, Sophocles crafted this powerful trilogy to explore humanity’s struggle against fate. In Oedipus at Colonus, the aged and blinded king finds a fitting conclusion to his tormented life, while Antigone traces the fall of the next generation through the conflict between a young woman ruled by conscience and a ruler too certain of his own authority. At the trilogy’s devastating heart stands King Oedipus — the portrait of a king who unwittingly brings pestilence upon Thebes for crimes he did not know he had committed, and who then turns a terrible punishment upon himself. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING
ISBN 13: 9780140440034
Author: Sophocles
