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Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor.

The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles's tragedy Oedipus, King of Thebes, which was followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Together, these plays make up Sophocles's three Theban plays.

In antiquity, the term "tyrant" referred to a ruler with no legitimate claim to rule, but it did not necessarily have a negative connotation.[2][3][4] Of Sophocles' three Theban plays that have survived, and that deal with the story of ...

"Oedipus was a king of Thebes in Greek mythology"--Provided by publisher.

Oedipus the King - Sophocles - The Plays of Sophocles - To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother.