The MouseionSophoclesOedipus the King
Oedipus the KingΟἰδίπους Τύραννος
By Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus · title translated from the Latin
- Kind of writing
- Tragedy
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 5th c. BC
- Length
- 11,374 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 73% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textSophocles, Volume 1. Storr, Francis, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company, 1912.
- English translationSophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887. (Modernized by Perseus.)