Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes; Euripides' Suppliants; Euripides' Phoenician Women
- ISBN-10
- 1624664733
- ISBN-13
- 9781624664731
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-11
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing
- Authors
- Euripides, Aeschylus
Description
Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Greek poets, one explored in a now lost epic cycle, as well as several other surviving tragedies. With a rich Introduction that sets three of these plays within the larger contexts of Theban legend and of Greek tragedy in performance, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig’s annotated translation of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Euripides' Suppliants, and Euripides' Phoenician Women offers a brilliant constellation of less familiar Theban plays—those dealing with the war between Oedipus’ sons, its casualties, and survivors.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Theban Plays
By SophoclesKing Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about ...
-
Three Theban Plays: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
By Sophocles"The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.
-
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
By SophoclesThe heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and ...
-
Three Theban Plays
By SophoclesThe story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others. It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother, a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.
-
Oedipus the King and Antigone
By SophoclesEd. Jonas A. Barish Racine: Phaedra. Trans. and ed. Oreste F. Pucciani Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus and Electra. Trans. and ed. Peter D. Arnott Sophocles: Oedipus the King and Antigone. Trans. and ed.
-
The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
By SophoclesThe Three Theban Plays Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Sophocles Translation by F. Storr Sophocles (c. 497/6 - winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.
-
Theban Plays
By Sophocles, Paul Woodruff, Peter MeineckThere was a voice — you could hear it from far offIt sliced through you , wailing around that unsanctified tomb . One of us got Creon to listen . He crept forward ; cries of misery Welled up around him , wordless , without meaning .
-
The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus
By SophoclesTheatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (Lanham, MD 1996) [locates the play in its historical context] Hester, D.A. “To Help one's Friends and Harm one's Enemies,” Antichthon 11 (1977) 22-41 Kirkwood, ...
-
Three Theban Plays
By SophoclesThree Theban Plays
-
The Three Theban Plays: Sophocles
By SophoclesThe Three Theban Plays - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone - Sophocles - The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually ...