Author: SOPHOCLES
Title: Oedipus the King
Description: Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980. Collector's Edition. First Printing. Leather. Illustrated by Demetrios Galanis. Publisher's full brown leather accented in 22kt gold, four raised bands on spine, printed on archival paper, a.e.g, peach silk moire endpapers, satin ribbon marker bound in, Smythe sewn, concealed joints. Illustrated with wood engravings by Demetrios Galanis and with an introduction by Thorton Wilder. Greek text translated into English verse by Francis Storr. Oedipus the King is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Of his three Theban Plays that deal with Oedipus, Oedipus the King was the second to be written. However, in terms of the chronology of events that the plays describe, it comes first, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Oedipus the King tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, while unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father, Laius, and marry his mother, Jocasta. Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that Oedipus the King was the great exemplar of Greek tragedy; the play is now widely regarded as Sophocles' masterpiece.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Wood engravings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 159 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .
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Title: Oedipus the King
Description: Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980. Collector's Edition. First Printing. Leather. Illustrated by Demetrios Galanis. Publisher's full brown leather accented in 22kt gold, four raised bands on spine, printed on archival paper, a.e.g, peach silk moire endpapers, satin ribbon marker bound in, Smythe sewn, concealed joints. Illustrated with wood engravings by Demetrios Galanis and with an introduction by Thorton Wilder. Greek text translated into English verse by Francis Storr. Oedipus the King is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Of his three Theban Plays that deal with Oedipus, Oedipus the King was the second to be written. However, in terms of the chronology of events that the plays describe, it comes first, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Oedipus the King tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, while unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father, Laius, and marry his mother, Jocasta. Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that Oedipus the King was the great exemplar of Greek tragedy; the play is now widely regarded as Sophocles' masterpiece.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Wood engravings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 159 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Easton Press Literature; Leather Fiction; Illustrated Books Theatre & Performing Arts Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 70.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 16581
- Book number: 16581
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