Timeless Classics: Oedipus at Colonus (Illustrated)

*Illustrated
*Includes a table of contents

In the Timeless Classics series, Charles River Editors is republishing civilization’s greatest literary works and bringing them to a new generation via ebooks. Timeless Classics offers a wide range of history’s greatest writing, including the acclaimed fictional stories of Jonathan Swift and Washington Irving, the political treatises of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, the epic poetry of Homer, and more.

Oedipus is one of the most well known mythological figures of the ancient Greeks, and he was immortalized in Sophocles’ trilogy of plays Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Each play in the trilogy is considered among the greatest plays ever written, and they were admired by the Ancient Greeks as well. Oedipus at Colonus helped create the genre of tragedy in its day, and people around the world are still familiar with Oedipus and his fate today as a result. Written last, Oedipus at Colonus is chronologically in the middle of the trilogy, and it details the end of Oedipus’ tragic life.

This edition of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus includes a table of contents and is illustrated.