| #2798816 in Books | Richard C Jebb | 1991-06-01 | 1991-06-01 | | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.2 x5.50l,.62 | File type: PDF | 198 pages | Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus||2 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Solid Translation, Fascinating Story, Read it Aloud in the Dark|By Bex @ Aurelia {Lit}|I'm left in awe of the violence in the final moments of this play. I can't tell if it is being glorified, condemned or just accepted. It is all done in the name of justice and in the case of Orestes, an order from the oracle of Apollo. The chorus is definitely in favor of it, and I suppose w|About the Author||R.C. Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century.
This edition of Oedipus Tyrannus is abridged from the full edition and differs mainly in the omission of an English translation. It contains an introduction, the Greek text and commentary in English. The full editions of all the plays, including Oedipus Tyrannus, are also available from Bristol Classical Press.
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