Week Three

Part One: Oedipus the Tyrant, The Tragedy

October 8, 7 PM -8:30 pm

The Reversal: from the Peak of Hubris to his Self-Revelation as a Double Pollution (Patricide and Incest)

Reading: lines 631 – 1185

(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.)