“No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.”
Quote by Sophocles
Work
Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The collection includes 'Oedipus the King,' a tale of a man who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother; 'Oedipus at Colonus,' which depicts the final days of Oedipus and his journey to death; and 'Antigone,' a story of a daughter's defiance of the state over her brother's burial. more
Author
Sophocles
Sophocles, born in 498 BC and died in 406 BC, was a renowned Greek tragic playwright. He is one of the three greatest tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles' works profoundly revealed the complexity of human nature and social contradictions, exerting a profound influence on subsequent drama. more
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