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A review by levininja
Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
4.0
I really loved Antigone but the other two (Oedipus the King and oedipus at Colonus) less so. To be honest, Sophocles seems to be all about melodrama; these read like soap operas for a general audience. He uses tons of idioms. I wonder if he was coining these idioms for the first time, like Shakespearre, or if he was just using tons of tropes and was an unoriginal bore. There are a few beautiful passages and thoughts in the first two.
I thought that Antigone was particularly well-written--beautiful, and full of meaning about what is truly moral when one's own morals are opposed by the dictates of the state.
Themes:
- the ethics of the individual vs the state (Antigone vs Creon)
- the ethics of the dictator vs his people (Creon vs everyone else)
- honoring one's family vs the state
Also this translation seems to be stellar (although I'm not an expert on the original Greek or anything so not fully qualified here, but to my layman's eyes, these feel like really good translations).
I thought that Antigone was particularly well-written--beautiful, and full of meaning about what is truly moral when one's own morals are opposed by the dictates of the state.
Themes:
- the ethics of the individual vs the state (Antigone vs Creon)
- the ethics of the dictator vs his people (Creon vs everyone else)
- honoring one's family vs the state
Also this translation seems to be stellar (although I'm not an expert on the original Greek or anything so not fully qualified here, but to my layman's eyes, these feel like really good translations).