Author:
Sophocles, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Descriptionxxvii, 180 pages ; 22 cm.
Note:The text of Oedipus Tyrannos -- Comparative sources -- [The story of Oedipus's mother] / Homer -- from Oedipus / Euripides -- from The history of the Peloponnesian War 2.47-54 / Thucydides -- from Oedipus at Colonus / Sophocles -- Nicomachean ethics 3.13-119 (1110b17-1111a21) ; Poetics 10-11, 13 / Aristotle -- Fables 66-67 / Hyginus -- Library 3.5-6 / Pseudo-Apollodorus -- from Oedipus / Seneca -- from The darker face of the earth / Rita Dove -- Secondary sources -- from Thebes: theater of self and society in Athenian drama / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Suffering under the sun [the knowledge of the slave] / Edith Hall -- from Who named me? Identity and status in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus / Eric Dugdale -- from Nature and its discontents in the Oedipus Tyrannus / Kirk Ormand -- from Death on a road / Joshua D. Sosin -- from The Oedipus Rex and the ancient unconscious / Martha C. Nussbaum -- from Road to nowhere: the mobility of Oedipus and the task of interpretation / Michael Andrew Kicey -- from The tragedy of pity in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus / Teresa M. Danze -- Sophocles: a chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180).
Note:"This Norton Critical Edition features a newly translated and annotated text of Sophocles's Greek tragedy, Oedipus Tyrannos. The play begins late in the mythic story, when Oedipus, the confident, assertive immigrant who serves as ruler of Thebes, is called upon to investigate a plague devastating the city. Tracing the cause of this sickness leads Oedipus gradually to discover terrible truths about his own family that have been buried for a generation, hinted at only by a confusing array of mysterious prophecies. "Sources" provides other ancient interpretations of the Oedipus myth, as well as part of Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens, and discussions of the play's structure and of free will from Aristotle; all ancient texts are newly translated for this Critical Edition. "Criticism" offers contemporary analyses and provide context for some of the key themes found in the play. A chronology is also included."-- Provided by publisher.
