The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experienceĮnriched Classics offers readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work It includes a selection of critical excerpts. Sophocles author Oedipus the King book Creon character trials challenges good concepts 02 Share Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations This edition of Oedipus the King is translated and introduced by Bernard Knox, director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. 21 of the best book quotes from Oedipus the King 01 Share E’en intolerable ills, Finding right issue, tend to naught but good. Timelines of significant events in Greek history and theater that provide the book’s historical context A concise introduction that gives readers important background information By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother. The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.Ī great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius.
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