Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) [Translated by E. H. Plumptre with an Introduction by John Williams White]
The second Theban play written by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus the King, is the drama which chronologically begins the Oedipus cycle. After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son, he binds the feet of his newborn child and orders his wife Jocasta to kill the infant. Unable to kill her own child, Jocasta entrusts a servant with the task instead, who takes the baby to a mountaintop to die of exposure. A passing shepherd rescues the baby and names it Oedipus, or swollen feet, taking it with him to Corinth where it is raised by the childless King Polybus as if it were his own. Whe…
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Weitere Autoren: White, John William (Solist) / Plumptre, E. H. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4209-5346-6
- EAN: 9781420953466
- Produktnummer: 20013237
- Verlag: Digireads.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 66 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.0 cm 93 g
- Gewicht: 93
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