The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles

The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
Author: E. S. Shuckburgh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107429102

Originally published in 1946, this book presents R. C. Trevelyan's English metrical translation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. The translation was based upon the text published by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb in 1900. A short introduction by Trevelyan is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English translations of ancient Greek drama and the works of Sophocles.

Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections

Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections
Author: Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher: Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2019-12-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Adrian Kelly
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 147251971X

In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and then force the old man back under Theban control. Oedipus' resistance shows a fierceness in no way dimmed by incapacity, but he also refuses to aid his repentant son, Polyneices, in his coming attack on Thebes, manifesting once more the passion and harshness which mark his character so thoroughly. His mysterious death at the end of the play, witnessed only by Theseus himself, seems the sole fitting end for such an exceptional and problematic figure, transforming Oedipus into one of the 'powerful dead' whose beneficence towards Athens heralds a positive future for the city. This useful companion provides background, context, a synopsis and detailed analysis of the play.

Tragic Narrative

Tragic Narrative
Author: Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9783110174014

This study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus demonstrates the applicability of narrative models to drama. It presents a major contribution not only to Sophoclean criticism but to dramatic criticism as a whole. For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play. Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus is presented as a uniquely rich text, which deftly uses the figure and history of the blind Oedipus to explore and thematize some of the basic narratological concerns of Greek tragedy: the relation between the narrow here-and-now of visible stage action and the many off-stage worlds that have to be mediated into it through narrative, including the past, the future, other dramatizations of the myth, and the world of the fifth-century audience.

Oedipus

Oedipus
Author: Derek Mahon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Pairing 'King Oedipus' and 'Oedipus at Colonus' creates a single play unified by the arc of the hero's tragic fate.

Scholia vetera in Sophoclis "Oedipum Coloneum"

Scholia vetera in Sophoclis
Author: Georgios A. Xenis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110456044

The ancient scholia to Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus shed light on Alexandrian ways of engaging with this play, and are richer than those to the other Sophoclean plays. The last editor, Vittorio de Marco (1952), established a better text of these scholia than his predecessors, in as much as he had a fuller knowledge of their manuscript tradition and a better understanding of their stratified nature. Still, his work is marred by a number of inaccuracies, omissions and methodological shortcomings. The new edition by Georgios Xenis improves on de Marco’s work by a careful examination of all the sources of the text and the conjectures proposed by scholars, and by relying on a clearly defined methodological framework. In this edition the scholia to the Oedipus at Colonus are restored in a textual state that is arguably the earliest we can recover, and is free of contradictions, unacceptable repetitions, and hybridisation or blending of elements from different versions. The critical text is accompanied by a detailed apparatus criticus, and is contextualised in its ancient scholarly tradition by means of a rich array of passages drawn from comparable sources. Extensive indices are provided at the end of the volume. The edition will be an invaluable resource for those engaged in the interpretation of Sophocles’ tragedies and, in particular, of the Oedipus at Colonus, and will be of interest to classicists working on ancient literary criticism and ancient scholarship.

Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783110193268

Annotation This is the first study of Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus which offers a lucid discussion of the main developments in the interpretative scholarship on the play, including among others an incisive analysis of its historical, social, mythical, intertextual, and performative contexts.