Week Three
Part One: Oedipus the Tyrant, The Tragedy
October 8, 7 PM -8:30 pm
The Downfall: Self-Blinding and the “Education” of Oedipus
Reading: lines 1186 – 1530
(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.)