Week Four

Part One: Oedipus the Tyrant, The Tragedy

October 15, 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.)