Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time by Bernard Knox

Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time

Bernard Knox

306 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

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In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries—and in particular in disentangling Soph...

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