A review by rosalind14
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles

4.0

The story of Oedipus is one of the more widely known myths (he's the one who killed his father and married his mother) but it was different experience altogether reading the actual play. The translation I read was one by Paul Roche, and I think he did a really nice job. Probably the reason I enjoyed this was because of the fact that it was written OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. It's hard to even fathom that many years, but what makes it even more amazing is that it's so readable and relevant in spite of the huge gap between author and reader. I would never have thought about reading this if it hadn't been included in my European Literature class, so I'm glad of that.