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Oedipus

Sophocles author Kenneth Mcleish translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Nick Hern Books

Published:23rd Feb '99

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The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.

This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, contains two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, in English translations by Kenneth McLeish.

It also includes an introduction to the plays.

'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'

* Daily Telegraph *

'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'

* Financial Tim

ISBN: 9781854596109

Dimensions: 165mm x 110mm x 10mm

Weight: 120g

160 pages