Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' "oedipus Tyrannus" and Seneca's "oedipus"

by Sophocles and Seneca

Book Overview

Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles' play was first performed, Seneca composed a fine, but neglected and often disparaged Latin tragedy on the same subject, which, in some ways, comes closer to our common understanding of the Oedipus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473977
• ISBN13: 9780801473975
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher