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Cover art: The cover shows a tragic mask in the Musee du Petit
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Blurb: “THE THEBAN PLAYS ANTIGONE/KING OEDIPUS
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
TRANSLATED BY E. F. WATLING
These three plays by Sophocles (496-406 B.C.), though they are all based on the legend of the royal house of Thebes, were written at different periods and dramatize different themes. Antigone is the tragedy of a woman ruled by conscience, an over-confidenf king, and a young man tormented by conflicting loyalties. King Oedipus is a vast and living portrait of man, without parallel in the Greek theatre, and Oedipus at Colonus completes the story with the legend of the passing of the aged hero.
'Mr. Watling's translation... is extremely success-ful' - Journal of Hellenic Studies.”