Oedipus Rex
'Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors whose influence may pervade our lives in ways we scarcely guess ...' These words come from the Introduction to Dr Dawe's edition of Oedipus Rex. In an attempt to analyse why this play 'Has exercised...
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Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother.
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Oedipus Rex; Commentary; Appendix on lyric metres; Indexes.
