Oedipus at Thebes Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time
Publisher: W W Norton & Co (Sd)
Published: January 1971
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780393005639
First sentence: It sometimes happens that a great poet creates a character in whom the essence of an age is distilled, a representative figure who in his action and suffering presents to his own time the image of its victory and defeat.
Table of contents: title: Hero -- Athens -- Man -- God -- Hero.