The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experienceĮnriched Classics offers readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. Characters: Oedipus, King of Thebes Jocasta, His Wife Creon, His Brother-in-Law Teiresias, an Old Blind Prophet APriest First Messenger Second Messenger A Herdsman A Chorus of Old Men of Thebes. Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work King Oedipus could be envied by many for his good fortune after defeating the Sphinx by solving her riddle, he became a respected ruler of Thebes and. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Timelines of significant events in Greek history and theater that provide the book’s historical context A concise introduction that gives readers important background information By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother. As the play ends, the chorus pronounces the Solonian axiom that no one should be. The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.Ī great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. Oedipus answers that he knows about the plague he has sent Creon.
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