Oedipus the King (5th Century B.C.): Library Resources

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Full text of Oedipus the King is available on the Web at:

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Print copies are also available in Truxal Library.

Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Oedipus the King. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• Ancient Greeks: Creating the Classical Tradition
• Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome [vol 1]
• Brill's Companion to Sophocles
• Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome
• Classical and Medieval Criticism (CMLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 2, 47, 51, 80, 86] - check under Oedipus tyrannos in the Cumulative Title Index, which is located in the latest volume of this multi-volume work
  • [vol 26] - locate the topical essay "Greek Mythology"
  • [vol 51] - locate the topical essay "Greek Theater"
  • [vol 92] - locate the topical essay "Roman Drama"
• Critical Survey of Drama [vol 6]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 3]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 3]
• Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
• Drama Criticism [vol 1]
• Drama for Students [vols 1, 4]
• Greek and Latin Authors, 800 BC - AD 1000
• Handbook to Life in Ancient
• Literature and Its Times [supl 1, part 1]
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama [vol 4]
• Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World
• Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
• World Literature and Its Times [vol 8]

Conduct a "Subject Browse" search using the Library Catalog for:

• Oedipus Greek mythology in literature
  
• Sophcles
• Greek drama--History and criticism
  

You'll find library materials that provide biographical information about Sophocles, as well criticism and interpretation of his work.

You might find the following eBooks useful for researching Antigone.

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