Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone is 36,727 words — about 2h 27m at 250 words per minute, across 7 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant’s feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the bo…
Details
- AuthorSophocles
- SourceProject Gutenberg #31
- Length36,727 words · 2h 27m of reading
- Chapters7
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
7 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01The Oedipus Trilogy
- 02OEDIPUS THE KING
- 03FOOTNOTES
- 04ARGUMENT
- 05DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- 06OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
- 07FOOTNOTES
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