Prone to excessive emendation, but with a useful apparatus criticus. Paris: Société d’édition “Les Belles Lettres”.Įxcessively conservative text, but with a particularly helpful translation.ĭawe, R. D. Texte établi par Alphonse Dain et traduit par Paul Mazon. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.Ĭonservative text, with detailed apparatus, by Avezzù commentary by Guidorizzi on matters of text and interpretation.ĭain, A.
The schola (fragments of ancient commentaries) to the play are expertly edited by Xenis 2017.Īvezzù, G., and G. The most recently discovered manuscript of the play was published by Yuan and Henry 2014, too late for any of these editions to use. Texts accompanied by commentaries include Jebb 1900 (with a translation, and excellent commentary that retains its value today) and Avezzù and Guidorizzi 2008 (a fairly conservative text with translation and detailed apparatus and commentary) Kamerbeek 1984, a commentary without text, is rarely of use. Dain 1960 is excessively conservative, and chiefly valuable today for its translation. Dawe 1996 is another critical edition of note, although fonder of rather radical emendations. The edition of the drama that sees the most use is Lloyd-Jones and Wilson 1992, of which Lloyd-Jones 1998 is largely a reprint with slimmed down apparatus and a facing translation. The dramatic tension and careful construction of both the speeches and choral odes show that the ninety-year-old Sophocles at the end of his life suffered no diminution in his creative powers. At the close, Oedipus is called by the gods to his death in an ending of solemn mystery. Oedipus’s son Polynices attempts to gain his father’s support for his invasion of Thebes, which is aimed at wresting the city from his brother’s control but he is met only by the old man’s solemn curse.
The play depicts his conflict with Creon, ruler of Thebes, who attempts first through deceit, then through violence, to bring him back, in the knowledge that the city who possesses Oedipus’s corpse will gain power from it but Theseus, ruler of Athens, gives Oedipus his protection. He has been wandering Greece ever since his exile from Thebes after the discovery of his parricide and incest but now he has reached his final destination, the grove of the Eumenides (Furies). First produced in 401 by Sophocles’ homonymous grandson, after Sophocles’ death in 405, it portrays the arrival of Oedipus, a blind, wandering beggar, at Colonus outside Athens, accompanied by his devoted daughter Antigone. Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus is the last of his seven plays which survive in full.
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