Comments on: Reading Sophocles’ Oedipus http://tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:48:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Tololy http://tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4350 Tololy Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:50:00 +0000 http://www.tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4350 Lizard of Oz, it's true. Sophocles is very gifted in provoking your fear and pity, but I don't think he'd be pleased to know you hate Greek myths. Come on, have some courage, you will love them if you give them a second chance. I am sure of it :) Wael Attili, yes that is the moral of the tale. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? I hope you're motivated enough to read the three plays again, and I hope this entry had a hand in triggering that motivation in you. Lizard of Oz, it’s true. Sophocles is very gifted in provoking your fear and pity, but I don’t think he’d be pleased to know you hate Greek myths. Come on, have some courage, you will love them if you give them a second chance. I am sure of it :)

Wael Attili, yes that is the moral of the tale. Ignorance is bliss, isn’t it? I hope you’re motivated enough to read the three plays again, and I hope this entry had a hand in triggering that motivation in you.

]]> By: Wael Attili http://tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4349 Wael Attili Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4349 I remember i had a special English course at my school and my teacher Tahreer Hamdi gave us Antigone, Oedipus The King, and Oedipus at Colonus. to read together also we read for Kafka.. it was a great literature course. I really enjoyed... the moral you can get is seeking to know the truth and the full truth can get you in more pain and suffer than not knowing :) It’s been a long time since I read it, and maybe ill get back and read it again I remember i had a special English course at my school and my teacher Tahreer Hamdi gave us Antigone, Oedipus The King, and Oedipus at Colonus. to read together also we read for Kafka.. it was a great literature course. I really enjoyed… the moral you can get is seeking to know the truth and the full truth can get you in more pain and suffer than not knowing :)
It’s been a long time since I read it, and maybe ill get back and read it again

]]> By: lizard of Oz http://tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4348 lizard of Oz Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:17:00 +0000 http://www.tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4348 Command no more, obey, your rule is over :D Sophocles is so talented that he could transfer all the "nakad" from that myth to our class and made me hate the greek myths altogether Command no more, obey, your rule is over :D

Sophocles is so talented that he could transfer all the “nakad” from that myth to our class and made me hate the greek myths altogether

]]> By: Tololy http://tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4347 Tololy Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:30:00 +0000 http://www.tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4347 Fedaykin, Just last week I read Antigone. Do you remember the remark you once left about the similarity between Aeschylus' and Sophocles' texts? It gave me the impression you are well into the play, and this is why I need to ask you something. Do you think Antigone finally denounced her passion for what she was doing, defending family values, at the end of the play just before the guards take her away? Creon did that, there is no question about it, but did she do it too or was that a later addition to the original text of the play as the introduction in Penguin Classics argues? I am interested in your answer, I trust you have a better rounded understanding of the play. I only read it once. Fedaykin,

Just last week I read Antigone. Do you remember the remark you once left about the similarity between Aeschylus’ and Sophocles’ texts? It gave me the impression you are well into the play, and this is why I need to ask you something.

Do you think Antigone finally denounced her passion for what she was doing, defending family values, at the end of the play just before the guards take her away? Creon did that, there is no question about it, but did she do it too or was that a later addition to the original text of the play as the introduction in Penguin Classics argues?

I am interested in your answer, I trust you have a better rounded understanding of the play. I only read it once.

]]> By: Fedaykin http://tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4346 Fedaykin Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.tololy.com/2006/03/29/reading-sophocles-oedipus/#comment-4346 Oedipus! Bloody hell! Yeah, Sophocles is impressive to say the least, though I've only ever read one translation...can't remember whose. Funny you should bring this up now...working on putting on Antigone as a play in the next few months... Oedipus! Bloody hell! Yeah, Sophocles is impressive to say the least, though I’ve only ever read one translation…can’t remember whose.

Funny you should bring this up now…working on putting on Antigone as a play in the next few months…

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