Theban plays
By: Sophocles.
Contributor(s): Taylor, Don, (Trans.).
Material type: BookSeries: Methuen world dramatists. Publisher: London Methuen 1992Edition: Rep.Description: lii, 200p.; 18cm.ISBN: 978041342460X .Subject(s): Sophocles -- Translations into English | Antigone (Mythological character) -- Drama | Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) -- DramaGenre/Form: Tragedies.DDC classification: 882.01 Summary: Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most accessible and may have had the most extensive influence on Western Culture, not least because Freud took from the Theban Plays the name and the idea of the Oedipus complex.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most accessible and may have had the most extensive influence on Western Culture, not least because Freud took from the Theban Plays the name and the idea of the Oedipus complex.