Oedipus Tsar. Sophocles

Sophocles is an ancient Greek poetry poet, one of the three great representatives of the ancient tragedy. In terms of life and the nature of creativity, he takes a place between Aeschylus and Euripid. The worldview and skill of Sophocles are marked by the desire for the equilibrium of the new and old: the glorifying the power of a free man, the playwright warned against the violation of the "divine laws"; Complicating the psychological characteristics, retained the general monumentality of images and composition. In this publication, readers are proposed to the most famous tragedies of Sophocles, which have become a classic model of the genre: Oedipus Tsar, Oedipus in the Colon and Antigon, Ayanth and Elektra.