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Missouri State University - Summer 2012 | ||
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The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by E. F. Watling (Translator), E. Watling Sophocles, E. A. Sophocles, Keith (Translator) Dewhurst, Penguin Group, Ioneseco E., Anouilh Jean, James Sturm, David Grene, Richard (Editors) Lattimore, Moses (Editor) Hadas Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1950 ISBN-10: 0-14-044003-8 / 0140440038 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044003-4 / 9780140440034 'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. King Oedipus tells |