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Oedipus (UK: / ˈ iː d ɪ p ə s /, also US: / ˈ ɛ d ə-/; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family.
The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee. After being licensed in 1678 and published in 1679, it became a huge success on stage during the Restoration period.
Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. While some scholars have argued that the play was first performed c. 429 BC, this is highly uncertain. [1]
Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 87. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. Rosenmeyer, T. G. 1952. "The Wrath of Oedipus." Phoenix 6:92–112. Saïd, S. 2012. "Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus." In Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens.
An English translation from Frank Justus Miller's [5] 1938 edition of this work is available online at theoi.com and archive.org. Oedipus is one of the five plays of Seneca chosen and translated by E. F. Watling and published by Penguin Classics in 1966. ISBN 0-14-044174-3; The English poet laureate Ted Hughes published a translation of the ...
Oedipus (French: Œdipe) is a tragedy by the French dramatist and philosopher Voltaire that was first performed in 1718. [1] It was his first play and the first literary work for which he used the pen-name Voltaire (his real name was François-Marie Arouet).
Antigone appears in the three 5th century BC tragic plays written by Sophocles, known collectively as the three Theban plays, being the protagonist of the eponymous tragedy Antigone. She makes a brief appearance at the end of Aeschylus ' Seven against Thebes , while her story was also the subject of Euripides ' now lost play with the same name .
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus in Sophocles. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 21, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-674-99558-1. Online version at Harvard University Press.