Week One
Part One: Oedipus the Tyrant, The Tragedy
September 17, 7 PM -8:30 pm
The Rise: Oedipus as Savior of Thebes and Tyrant
Reading: lines 1 – 630.
(The translation we are using is Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus, in The Theban Plays, translated by Peter J. Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle. Agora Editions, Cornell Univ Press: 2014.)