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 burgundy leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering or decoration in each compartment, intricate gilt decoration on both covers, pink moire silk endpapers, printed on archival paper, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth sewn, and with concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding, a.e.g. Illustrated with full-page full color plates by Demetrios Galanis. 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, unread, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Color Illustrations. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 159 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

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