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, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, intricate gilt decoration on both covers, black 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 numerous wood engravings by Demetrios Galanis. The Greek text translated into English verse by Francis Storr. Introduction by Thornton Wilder. 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. Wood engravings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 159 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

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