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1) The Antigone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor
3) Oedipus Rex
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A king tries in vain to avert a horrific fate in this epic tragedy, widely considered a masterpiece. Oedipus was warned that his destiny is for him to kill his father and marry his mother. So he fled his home and has now become the king of Thebes, taking the throne after the death of its previous occupant, Laius, and marrying his widow, Jocasta. But just as Laius long ago labored to defy a prophecy and ultimately failed, so will Oedipus, in this masterpiece...
12) Greek tragedy
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty-four lectures introducing students to Greek tragedy by setting the plays in their cultural and historical background.
17) Greek tragedies
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Presents the second of the three Theban plays by Sophocles in a contemporary translation that remains true to the text, setting the plays in the past yet not the distant past and dispensing with the masks. This second segment of the trilogy recounts the final days of the blind Oedipus in which he rails against the indignities of old age.
