Oedipus Cycle PB - by Sophocles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone together known as The Oedipus Cycle. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles s immortal series of plays centers upon the royal family of Thebes, whose struggles for nobility and greatness lead paradoxically to their own tragic downfalls. Portraying humankind at its worst and most fallible even while exploring the heights of virtue and honor, the plays shine a searing light upon questions of fate and free will, destiny and responsibility, hubris and humility, honor and obligation, and more. Robert Bagg s timely translations allow the power and depth of Sophocles s masterpieces to shine through clearly to readers today."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of <em>Oedipus the King</em>, <em>Oedipus at Kolonos</em>, and <em>Antigone</em>--together known as <em>The Oedipus Cycle</em>. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles's immortal series of plays centers upon the royal family of Thebes, whose struggles for nobility and greatness lead paradoxically to their own tragic downfalls. Portraying humankind at its worst and most fallible even while exploring the heights of virtue and honor, the plays shine a searing light upon questions of fate and free will, destiny and responsibility, hubris and humility, honor and obligation, and more. Robert Bagg's timely translations allow the power and depth of Sophocles's masterpieces to shine through clearly to readers today.<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vibrant new translations by award-winning poet Robert Bagg</p><p>Sophocles' three great masterpieces, gathered here in one volume, dramatize the inexplicable animosity directed at three generations of Thebes' royal family by Apollo, the inscrutable god who terrifies and deceives his victims into acts of incest, betrayal, and kin murder. These fifth-century BCE family dramas--<em>Oedipus the King</em>, <em>Oedipus at Kolonos</em>, and <em>Antigone</em>--are fraught with horrific crises, confrontations, and excruciating choices, all of which still rivet theatergoers and readers in the twenty-first century.</p><p>Bagg's translations are modern in idiom while faithful to the Greek. They preserve the complexity of Sophocles' characters and their dialogue (whether searingly raw, subtly inflected, or infused with humor) and render Sophocles' choral odes in resonant poetry. The three plays of <em>The Oedipus Cycle</em>, already proven stageworthy, refresh and clarify Sophocles' narratives for a new generation about to discover timeless sources of pleasure and illumination in classical Greek drama.</p>
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