Sophocles: The Theban Plays




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ClassGraphic Sophocles (497-405 BCE) wrote over 100 plays, only seven of which have survived in complete form. Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, while not written as a trilogy, are all concerned with the family of Oedipus, King of Thebes. Their themes have resonance today: What is justice? What is the relationship between the individual and the state? How do we live under forces we cannot control? We will explore how these themes have evolved over the last 2500 years. In addition to our reading and discussion, we will read selections of these plays aloud together to experience the plays in a different way. Recommended translation: The Theban Plays of Sophocles, translated by David R. Slavitt. (Yale University Press, 2007).
 

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4 Session(s)
Weekly - Tue

Location
500 Davis Center

Instructor
Multiple

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Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
7/7/2026 - 7/28/2026 Weekly - Tue 09:45 AM - 11:45 AM Evanston, 500 Davis Center  Map Suzanne Farrand  ; Amy Pobst 

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