Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791093603 ISBN 13: 9780791093603

Publisher: Blooms Literary Criticism, 2007

Synopsis

Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, Oedipus Rex is a classic Greek tragedy that depicts the struggle between man and fate. Oedipus' story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between sons and fathers. Part of the Bloom's Guides, this title offers its readers fresh insight into this time-honored classic.

About this title

Book Description:

Greek text with introduction and full commentary.

From the Back Cover:

Sophocles. Tragoediae. In usum Scholarum The new Teubner text of Sophocles is the third edition made by R.D. Dawe of Trinity College, Cambridge. The plays now appear separately, in soft covers, at a price which makes them especially suitable for University use. The apparatus criticus records some of the many meritorious suggestions from the past, which Dr. van Paassen's collection has brought to light. The text itself has been drafted on more adventurous principles than before, to offer something smoother and more readable for the less advanced students, and something more provocative of thought for their mentors, in the belief that lively disagreement, if disagreement is called for, is more valuable than unquestioning acquiescence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blooms Literary Criticism
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0791093603
• ISBN 13: 9780791093603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 118
• Editor: Bloom Harold