Polynices and six foreign princes marched on Thebes. Fiction Book Review: Antigone Oedipus the King Electra (Oxford World's Classics): WITH Oedipus the King by H. Quantity: 2 available Price: US 5. After the first year, however, Eteocles, the elder, refused to step down. Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra Sophocles Item Information Condition: GoodGood Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Upon Oedipus death, it was agreed that each would take the throne from one year to the next. Their sonorous diction, economy, and sensitivity to the varied metres and modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance. Oedipus, Antigone and Ismenes father, had two sons, Eteocles and Polynices. These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity, and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy. Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family, Oedipus’ determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide, and Electra’s unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent ‘hero’. Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three. dynasties featured in Greek tragedy-the houses of Oedipus and Agamemnon.

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Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles’ reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra by Sophocles, H. Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.

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