550 reviews for:

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

Sophocles

3.87 AVERAGE

frizzbee's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

myaoo's review against another edition

3.5

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

zb1113's review against another edition

4.0

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9

Lots of beautiful language in Fagles translation. Great introduction to each play that lays out context and themes.

Grief, guilt vs responsibility, Desert, free will vs fate vs divine foreknowledge, duty to ones loved ones vs ones country, filial/social guilt and responsibility.

Antigone as "embodiment of only consolation that tragedy can offer - the in certain heroic natures unmerited suffering and death can be met with a greatness of soul, which, because it is purely human, brings honor to us all."

Oedipus as a play "not a picture of mans utter feebleness caught in the toils of fate, but on the contrary, a heroic example of mans dedication to the search for the truth, the truth about himself. This is perhaps the only human freedom, the play seems to say, but there could be none more noble."

Colonus - Oedipus rises from his blinded and feeble state to lead and prophesy of future

irmingard's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

debbie_mc's review against another edition

4.0

dark

misheel_bayasgalan's review against another edition

4.0

funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

bats_all_folks's review against another edition

4.0

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This is the most interested in Greek mythology I've been since middle school and Percy Jackson

archreader101's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

its_asker's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional fast-paced

fiinch's review against another edition

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I love the ancient grief and rage and defiance of women and I love how ancient playwrights/poets all knew how to write the most devastating, most treacherous child deaths known to mankind