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Informationen zum Autor Sophocles (ca. 497/6 BC-407/6 BC) was the most acclaimed dramatist of his era! winning more than twenty festival competitions in ancient Athens. He is believed to have written 123 plays! but only seven have survived in complete form. His life spanned the rise and fall of the Athenian Empire. David Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His translations of Oedipus Rex ! Antigone ! and The Complete Poetry of Catullus are also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Klappentext A translation of the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatises the mysterious death of Oedipus! by which he is transformed into an immortal hero protecting Athens. Translator David Mulroy's introduction and notes deepen the reader's understanding of Oedipus' character and the real political tumult that was shaking Athens at the time that Sophocles wrote the play. Zusammenfassung Oedipus at Colonus follows Oedipus Rex and Antigone in the trilogy of Greek dramas about the king of Thebes and his unhappy family. David Mulroy's translation combines scrupulous scholarship and textual accuracy with a fresh verse style! and his introduction and notes deepen the reader's understanding of the play and the politics of Sophocles' Athens.
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Sophocles (ca. 497/6 B.C.E.-407/6 B.C.E.) was the most acclaimed dramatist of his era, winning more than twenty festival competitions in ancient Athens. He is believed to have written 123 plays, but only seven have survived in complete form. His life spanned the rise and fall of the Athenian Empire. David Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His translations of
Oedipus Rex,
Antigone, and
The Complete Poetry of Catullus are also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
