Antigone Oedipus The King Electra — Sophocles

Oedipus King Of Thebes

Sophocles tarafından kaleme alınan Oedipus King Of Thebes Gece Kitaplığı eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor Oedipus King Of Thebes Sophocles Kitap Özeti That while in Thebes I bear the diadem No man shall greet no man shall shelter them Nor give them water in their thirst nor share In sacrifice nor shrift nor dying prayer But thrust them from our doors the thing they hide Being this lands curse Thus hath the God replied This day to me from Delphi and my sword I draw thus for the dead and for Gods word Yayınevi Gece Kitaplığı Yazar Sophocles Sayfa 176 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 13 50x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Temmuz 2021 Barkod 9786257462143 Kategori Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Diğer Felsefe Kitapları

That while in Thebes I bear the diadem No man shall greet no man shall shelter them Nor give them water in their thirst nor shareIn sacrifice nor shrift nor dying prayer But thrust them from our doors the thing they hideBeing this land s curse Thus hath the God repliedThis day to me from Delphi and my swordI draw thus for the dead and for God s word

That while in Thebes I bear the diadem No man shall greet no man shall shelter them Nor give them water in their thirst nor share In sacrifice nor shrift nor dying prayer But thrust them from our doors the thing they hide Being this land s curse Thus hath the God replied This day to me from Delphi and my sword I draw thus for the dead and for God s word

Love and loyalty hatred and revenge fear deprivation and political ambition these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians Sophocles reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure faced with a test of will and character risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent hero Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family Oedipus determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide and Electra s unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy Their sonorous diction economy and sensitivity to the varied metres and modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance

Love and loyalty hatred and revenge fear deprivation and political ambition these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians Sophocles reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure faced with a test of will and character risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent hero Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family Oedipus determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide and Electra s unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy Their sonorous diction economy and sensitivity to the varied metres and modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance