Timeless Classics: Oedipus the King (Illustrated)

*Illustrated
*Includes a table of contents

In the Timeless Classics series, Charles River Editors is republishing civilization’s greatest literary works and bringing them to a new generation via ebooks. Timeless Classics offers a wide range of history’s greatest writing, including the acclaimed fictional stories of Jonathan Swift and Washington Irving, the political treatises of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, the epic poetry of Homer, and more.

Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is widely considered one of the greatest plays ever written, despite its ancient roots. And it was admired by the Ancient Greeks as well, with no less than Aristotle asserting it as the best Greek tragedy in his Poetics. The story, also known as Oedipus Rex, helped create the genre of tragedy in its day, and people around the world are still familiar with Oedipus and his fate today.

This edition of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King includes a table of contents and is illustrated.