![]() ![]() ![]() Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence.Īn Author's Republic audio production. Download or stream Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Expatriate for free on hoopla. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall (as opposed to making fate the sole cause). Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio book store and download or stream it right to. Oedipus the King tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. Download or stream Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Thematically, however, it was the first in the trilogy's historical chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grenes legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles Greek into cogent, vivid. It was the second in order of Sophocles's composition of his three plays dealing with Oedipus. Oedipus Rex, also known as Oedipus the King or Oedipus the Tyrant, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as Oedipus, King of Thebes). ![]()
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