This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.

Contents

Oedipus the King, Stephen Berg, poet; Diskin Clay, Duke University
Introduction
Oedipus the King
Notes
Oedipus at Colonus, Eamon Grennan, poet; Rachel Kitzinger, Vassar College
Introduction
Oedipus at Colonus
Notes
Antigone, Reginald Gibbons, Northwestern University; the late Charles Segal, classicist
Introduction
Antigone
Notes
Glossary
For Further Reading