Ebook {Epub PDF} Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Oedipus, a stranger to Thebes, became king of the city after the murder of king Laius, about fifteen or sixteen years before the start of the play. He was offered the throne because he was successful in saving the city from the Sphinx, an event referred to repeatedly in the text of the play. Oedipus the King unfolds as a murder mystery, a political thriller, and a psychological whodunit. Throughout this mythic story of patricide and incest, Sophocles emphasizes the irony of a man determined to track down, expose, and punish an assassin, who turns out to be himself. As the play opens, the citizens of Thebes beg their king, Oedipus, to lift the plague that threatens to destroy the city. OEDIPUS THE KING Sophocles, ca. BC The play won second prize in the festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece, ca. BC. Like stories and poetry, drama originates from preliterate folk traditions, such as song, dance and religious ceremonies. Body painting (make-up), masks and other devices also have ancient antecedents. According to.

The Plot of OEDIPUS THE KING. Before the play begins By leaving his home in Corinth, Oedipus thinks he has escaped a terrible prophecy that says that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus has defeated the riddling Sphinx, saved the seven-gated city of Thebes, and married the queen Jocasta. For an introductory lecture on Oedipus the King, please use the following link: Lecture on Oedipus. BACKGROUND NOTE. Sophocles ( BC BC) was a famous and successful Athenian writer of tragedies in his own lifetime. Of his plays, only 7 have survived. Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote over plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.

Oedipus the King unfolds as a murder mystery, a political thriller, and a psychological whodunit. Throughout this mythic story of patricide and incest, Sophocles emphasizes the irony of a man determined to track down, expose, and punish an assassin, who turns out to be himself. As the play opens, the citizens of Thebes beg their king, Oedipus, to lift the plague that threatens to destroy the city. Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípoːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around BC. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply Oedipus (Οἰδίπους), as it is. “Oedipus the King” (Gr: “Oidipous Tyrannos”; Lat: “Oedipus Rex”) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, first performed in about BCE. It was the second of Sophocles ‘ three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology (followed by “Oedipus at Colonus” and then “Antigone”).