by Sophocles · ISBN 9789724405179
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«Rei Édipo» is the tragedy by Sófocles, in a Portuguese edition of 157 pages published by the Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica.
Oedipus, king of Thebes, confronts the plague afflicting his city, determined to know the truth. Between appearances and revelations, his search leads him to a tragic identity he must assume. The play, considered a paradigm of Greek tragedy, reflects on fate, blindness, and self-knowledge.
Translation from the Greek by Maria do Céu Zambujo Fialho; the edition is from 1979.
For readers interested in the Greek classics, the theater and works that have shaped the Western literary tradition.
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.
