Oedipus at Colonus

By Sophocles

Book Id: WPLBN0002953630
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File Size: 46.14 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Oedipus at Colonus
Author:	Sophocles
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Tragedy, Play
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Oedipus at Colonus
Historic Publication Date:	1912
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Sophocles, B. (1912). Oedipus at Colonus. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves Thebes, to wander in the wilderness accompanied by his daughters Antigone and Ismene. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Tragedy, Play