The Shinx presenting her riddle to Oedipus. Attic Red Figure. 450 – 440 BC.
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🔆♣“The Theban Plays”🔆:
In my previous post, I introduced some of the most important characteristics of Tragedy, as highlighted by Aristotle in his book “Poetics”. In brief, I mentioned the main characteristics, aims and structure of tragedy.
Furhermore, I made reference tothe most famous ancient greek playwrights of the genre Tragedy: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Sophocles 497/ 406 BC was the author of “Oedipus Rex”, the tragedy we´ll analyse in this post. He wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form. Among them we should mention the so called Theban plays.
The Theban plays consist of three plays: “Oedipus Rex” (“Oedipus the King”, also called “Oedipus Tyrannus”), “Oedipus at Colonus” and “Antigone”
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Thanks so much for sharing, dear Kate… all my best wishes Aquileana 🌟
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I totally loved this post. Glad to see it reblogged
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