Oedipus at Colonus (Focus Classical Library)

Translated with introduction, notes and interpretive essay by Mary Whitlock Blundell. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition. x/108 pages. "In "Oedipus at Colonus," Sophocles' last play, the aged playwright returned to complete the story of Oedipus, whose downfall he had dramatized some 20 years earlier in "Oedipus the King." The result was a drama of extraordinary power, in which Oedipus after years of suffering for his earlier deeds, pleads his own innocence and confronts the array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves. That death provides the drama with an unforgettable climax which is also a unique account of a mortal acquiring the sacred status and superhuman powers of a cult hero.".