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  <title><![CDATA[The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus &amp; Antigone]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;English versions of Sophocles&amp;#8217; three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in David and my three book reading program on Greek history and culture. We decided to read three books about the same time period in ancient Greece. We are focusing on how the Greeks explained human behavior. This was a great book to start with. It has a decent explanation of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77290406">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[there is a certain fascination in watching oedipus slowly unravel his own inescapable fate*, but as characters go, I preferred antigone.  I read the fagles edition, which puts &quot;antigone&quot; first; I'm not sure if I would not have prefered it last?  I understand why they chose to put the plays...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45507419">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 21:47:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After working through the dense, turgid monologues of the Oresteia, the Oedipus cycle feels almost snappy and modern by comparison. Sophocles was way ahead of his time in understanding how to blend short, tense exchanges with longer, introspective ruminations. He can even throw in some humor which, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63387467">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first, I thought this book would be boring. But as I started reading this, I was pretty impressed. It was really dramatic, ironic and also, romantic. It was dramatic and ironic because people killed each other and blamed each other without even knowing if they are even sure about it. It was also ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70665787">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read and taught &quot;Oedipus Rex&quot; countless times, but I had never read the other two plays in the trilogy.  Sophocles wrote them many, many years apart, and they all feel very different from each other.  Because of this, it's hard to compare them, but I think I like &quot;Oedipus at Colo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74633853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8420905">
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 29 22:02:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[My translation, published by Wordsworth Editions.]]></body>
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    <review id="49665749">
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    <body><![CDATA[     I found this book to be a more simpler read than Hamlet. Hamlet was written in old English so a modern day version is hard to fully translate. Yet, I found the story of Antigone and Oedpidus to be thought provoking as well. The book had a simple storyline but made me think about whether fate re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49665749">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much as I expected, my favorites were &quot;Oedipus the King,&quot; then &quot;Antigone,&quot; and lastly &quot;Oedipus at Colonus.&quot; That last play wasn't a bad play; it just didn't have any of the same intensity of emotion or tension as the other two in the book, and so paled in comparison for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58678075">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 27 21:39:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In narrative sequence they are King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Man unwittingly kills real father while fleeing his beloved supposed father to avoid fulfilling a prophecy that he would slay his father. Marries his mother, also unwittingly. Fathers two sons and two daughters (or if you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31397496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8665103">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 04 16:17:28 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is written in a play write form, a quick read if someone were to want to learn of Oedipus Rex and the later stories. It starts out with Oedipus ruling his father's throne, pieces it's way to what happened before, then is chronological for the latter half. I didn't really enjoy it so much, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8665103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book contains my favourite translated version of Sophocles' &quot;Oedipus the King&quot; by Don Taylor. It was made into a BBC TV film in 1986 (directed by Don Taylor) which starred the brilliant Michael Pennington as the penultimate tragic character Oedipus Rex and John Gielgud as the earth-sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/368666">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 29 14:14:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sophocles covers the entire gamut of humanity in these three, twists it around and makes you take a long look at yourself.  Like any great playwright, he crafts the story around sub stories of people and how they relate to one another as well as to themselves as a whole.  In this regard, these three...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44784208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the part in Oedipus when the shepherd comes to Thebes to answer the messenger's questions, and the shepherd is like, &quot;What? What baby? Oh that baby? Wait, I gave you a baby? Oh right, the broken footed little baby. Oh yeah, that's the king's baby.&quot; And then Oedipus is all like, &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47494680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Teiresias:king though you are,I claim the privilege of equal answer.No,I have the right;I am no slave of yours_I serve Apollo,and therefore am not listed Creon’s man.listen_since you have taunted me with blindness!you have your sight,and yet you can not see where, nor with whom,you live, nor in wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6885632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56344915">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the benefits of a job like mine is that you get to talk about great books all the time. Antigone has been one of my favorites for a long time, and I've been teaching it for a long time. Then I added Oedipus the King. I think there's a reason that Aristotle thought this the greatest tragedy ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56344915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38707985">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles; translated by Robert Fagles. Again, Greek Tragedy can be read several times, and still a new level of meaning or understanding of the theme can be attained. Here with the 3 plays, lots of interpretation and insight can/will be required to translate the various theme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38707985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my class loved this play, and we had a great time reading it.  It is about the death of a man who was a victim of the gods, and how even in death he retains his nobelity.  It is said that Sophocles himself was old when he wrote this and it makes sense.  This would later become the template for Shake...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45668723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[HOLY COW!!! Talk about books that were wasted on me in college! I just re-read The Oedipus Cycle 15 years after I was assigned it in my freshman year of college.<br/><br/>These stories are such a beautiful, relevant reminder that we are not in control of our fates- that luck, the Gods, the inertia o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28039200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the three extant Theban plays of Sophocles during high school and probably read Oedipus Rex more than once in preparation for the National Merit, ACT, SAT and AP examinations towards the end of my public education.  God knows I used Oedipus more than once on essays!<br/><br/>While reading o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40656522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Oedipus the King last quarter, I was very impressed and thoroughly interested in reading more of Sophocles' work. I read two of his other plays following the plot arc of Oedipus set up in the first text. I found it very interesting how Sophocles continued a single storyline through thr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9687905">more...</a>]]></body>
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