Oedipus Rex - Brossura

Sophocles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486268772 ISBN 13: 9780486268774

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1991

Riassunto

Considered by many the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies, Oedipus Rex is Sophocles' finest play and a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Aristotle considered it a masterpiece of dramatic construction and refers to it frequently in the Poetics.
In presenting the story of King Oedipus and the tragedy that ensues when he discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother, the play exhibits near-perfect harmony of character and action. Moreover, the masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies the impact of the agonizing events and emotions experienced by Oedipus and the other characters in the play. Now these and many other facets of this towering tragedy may be studied and appreciated in Dover's attractive inexpensive edition of one of the great landmarks of Western drama.

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Recensione

"A great work of world literature has at last become a great poem in English. Mulroy's translation is far superior to other available English verse translations." --Robert J. Rabel, editor of "Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern"

L'autore

David Mulroy is professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has translated "The Complete Poetry of Catullus," also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Sophocles (ca. 497/6-407/6 BCE) was the most acclaimed dramatist of his era, winning more than twenty festival competitions in ancient Athens. He is believed to have written 123 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0486268772
• ISBN 13: 9780486268774
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64