Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation), credited to Sophocles, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation) by Sophocles. (Translated by Richard Claverhouse Jebb.) Read in English by Expatriate. "Oedipus at Colonus" (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays, the events of "Oedipus at Colonus" occur after "Oedipus the King" and before "Antigone"; however, it was the last of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be written. The play describes the end of Oedipus' tragic life. Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus' death; Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and also Sophocles' own birthplace, where the blinded Oedipus has come with his daughters Antigone and Ismene as suppliants of the Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens. Summary by Wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation)
• Author credits: Sophocles
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:48:01

Catalogue topics

• sophocles
• greek drama
• greek tragedy

Track guide

1. 01 - Part I — 21:12
2. 02 - Part II — 25:23
3. 03 - Part III — 22:18
4. 04 - Part IV — 20:47
5. 05 - Part V — 18:21

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