Week Four

Part Two: Oedipus at Colonus, The Comedy?

October 15, 7 PM -8:30 pm

Oedipus’ rise from pariah and pollution to pure, innocent Job-like sufferer loved by the gods. His defense of his justice, and its success with the demos.

Reading: lines 1 – 667

(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.)