Tag: Sophocles

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 Delphi Complete Works of Sophocles (Illustrated)
by Sophocles
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00D65BOVA | 891 Pages | ePUB/MOBI | 10/2 MB

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.