by Sófocles · Ediciones Clásicas S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478826728
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«Edipo Rey» is the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, published by Ediciones Clásicas S.L. in paperback, with 63 pages in Spanish.
Facing the plague ravaging the city of Thebes, King Oedipus sends his brother-in-law Creon to consult the oracle at Delphi. The oracle's response drives the monarch to investigate the past of his people and his own, in a plot of tragic irony, fate, and the search for truth.
This edition includes translation and notes by Mariano Benavente and is the first work of Sophocles' Theban cycle.
Edition suitable for high school students and for those new to classical Greek theater.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
