Tag: Oedipus

Free Download Paul Woodruff, "The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Philosophical Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0190669454 | 2018 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1108 KB
Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. Faced with a damning prophecy, he tries to take destiny into his own hands and fails. Realizing this, he struggles at the end of his life for a serenity that seems to elude him. In his last misery, he is said to illustrate the tragic lament that it is better not to be born, or, once born, better to die young than to live into old age.

Free Download Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau by Almut-Barbara Renger, translated by David Rice, Duncan Alexander Smart
English | September 3, 2013 | ISBN: 022604808X | True EPUB | 136 pages | 4.9 MB
When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle-he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture’s central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth-in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known-Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account of this mythic encounter and how it deals with the concepts of liminality and otherness.

Free Download Sophocles, "Oedipus at Colonus "
English | ISBN: 0299302547 | 2015 | 180 pages | AZW3 | 305 KB
Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles’ trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatizes the mysterious death of Oedipus, by which he is transformed into an immortal hero protecting Athens. This was Sophocles’ final play, written in his mid-eighties and produced posthumously. Translator David Mulroy’s introduction and notes deepen the reader’s understanding of Oedipus’ character and the real political tumult that was shaking Athens at the time that Sophocles wrote the play. Oedipus at Colonus is at once a complex study of a tragic character, an indictment of Athenian democracy, and a subtle endorsement of hope for personal immortality.

Free Download The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca translated by David Konstan, Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund
English | February 21, 2017 | ISBN: 022601360X, 0226821080 | True EPUB/PDF | 320 pages | 0.4/0.99 MB
The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.

Free Download Wm. Blake Tyrrell, "The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles’ Oedipus the King "
English | ISBN: 1611863392 | 2020 | 360 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. Assembling all the evidence and placing the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. It features a new translation with facing Greek text and selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.

Free Download Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6R88SW4 | 2023 | 21 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 620 MB
Author: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Narrator: Jon Orsini
When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society’s innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person’s unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What’s more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.