Week Two

Part One: Oedipus the Tyrant, The Tragedy

September 24, 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.)