Oedipus the King

Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781297635458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era

Author: Yulia Kovas
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1349960489
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This book explores the answers to fundamental questions about the human mind and human behaviour with the help of two ancient texts. The first is Oedipus Rex (Oedipus Tyrannus) by Sophocles, written in the 5th century BCE. The second is human DNA, with its origins around 4 billion years ago, and continuously revised by chance and evolution. With Sophocles as a guide, the authors take a journey into the Genomic era, an age marked by ever-expanding insights into the human genome. Over the course of this journey, the book explores themes of free will, fate, and chance; prediction, misinterpretation, and the burden that comes with knowledge of the future; self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecies; the forces that contribute to similarities and differences among people; roots and lineage; and the judgement of oneself and others. Using Oedipus Rex as its lens, this novel work provides an engaging overview of behavioural genetics that demonstrates its relevance across the humanities and the social and life sciences. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of genetics, education, psychology, sociology, and law.

Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus the King: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics)

Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090353474
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
Oedipus, King of Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to ask advice of the oracle at Delphi, concerning a plague ravaging Thebes. Creon returns to report that the plague is the result of religious pollution, since the murderer of their former king, Laius, has never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for causing the plague.Oedipus summons the blind prophet Tiresias for help. When Tiresias arrives he claims to know the answers to Oedipus's questions, but refuses to speak, instead telling him to abandon his search. Oedipus is enraged by Tiresias' refusal, and verbally accuses him of complicity in Laius' murder. Outraged, Tiresias tells the king that Oedipus himself is the murderer ("You yourself are the criminal you seek"). Oedipus cannot see how this could be, and concludes that the prophet must have been paid off by Creon in an attempt to undermine him. The two argue vehemently, as Oedipus mocks Tiresias' lack of sight, and Tiresias in turn tells Oedipus that he himself is blind. Eventually Tiresias leaves, muttering darkly that when the murderer is discovered he shall be a native citizen of Thebes, brother and father to his own children, and son and husband to his own mother.

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438114109
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
A collection of eight critical essays on the classical tragedy, arranged in the chronological order of their original publication.

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex

Author: Stephen Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521407786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
This clear and concise guide is the first ever to be written on this work and it describes the music and its staging in close detail.

Oedipus at Colonus

Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504062833
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
The ancient Greek tragedy about the exiled king’s final days—and the power struggle between his two sons. The second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Accompanied by his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he takes up residence in the village of Colonus near Athens—where the locals fear his very presence will curse them. Nonetheless they allow him to stay, and Ismene informs him his sons are battling each other for the throne of Thebes. An oracle has pronounced that the location of their disgraced father’s final resting place will determine which of them is to prevail. Unfortunately, an old enemy has his own plans for the burial, in this heart-wrenching play about two generations plagued by misfortune from the world’s great ancient Greek tragedian.

Oedipus the King

Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195054934
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Dramatizes the story of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother.

The Oedipus Cycle

Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156027649
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

Author: David Kovacs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192597116
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
Oedipus the King is the best-known play we have from the pen of Sophocles and was recognized as a masterpiece in Aristotle's Poetics, which cites the play more often than any other as an example of how to write tragedy. The principal character is the king of a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, who consults Apollo at Delphi and is told that the plague will end only when those who killed the previous king, Laius, are found and punished. He launches an investigation, in the course of which he learns not only that he is himself the killer, but that Laius was his father and Laius' widow, whom he married, his own mother. As a result of this revelation Oedipus changes from being a respected king and conscientious investigator into a polluted and self-blinded outcast. This volume presents a highly-polished English verse translation of Sophocles' powerful play which renders both the beauty of his language and the horror of the events being dramatized. A detailed introduction and notes clearly elucidate how the plot is constructed and the meaning this construction implies, as well as how Sophocles ably concealed the fact that his characters act in ways which differ from what we expect in real life. It also addresses influential misinterpretations, thereby offering an accessible and authoritative introduction to the play that will be of benefit to a wide range of readers.

Oedipus Rex

Author: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900855757
Category : Cinema films: 'Oedipus Rex' Shooting scripts
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description