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Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex probably the most famous tragedy ever written. It is known by a variety of titles (the most common being Oedipus Rex), including Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannus. Sophocles first produced the play in Athens around 430 B.C. at the Great Dionysia, a religious and cultural festival held in honor of the god Dionysus, where it won second prize. In the play Oedipus, King of Thebes, upon Translation (1) Thomas Francklin, 1759 – verse Edward H. Plumptre, 1865 – verse: full text Richard C. Jebb, 1904 – prose: full text Gilbert Murray, 1911 – verse Francis Storr, 1912 – verse: full text William Butler Yeats, 1928 – mixed prose and verse David Grene, 1942 (revised ed. 1991) – verse E.F. Watling, 1947 – verse Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949 – verse Translation (2) Theodore Howard Banks, 1956 – verse Albert Cook, 1957 – verse Bernard Knox, 1959 – prose H. D. F. Kitto, 1962 – verse Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay – verse Robert Bagg, 1982 (revised ed. 2004) – verse Robert Fagles, 1984 – verse Nick Bartel, 1999 – verse: abridged text Kenneth McLeish, 2001 - Verse George Theodoridis, 2005 – prose: full text Luci Berkowitz and Theodore F. Brunner, 1970 – prose Ian Johnston, 2004 – verse: full text People and places to know: Oedipus Jocasta Laius Polybus Merope Sphinx Teiresias (Tiresias ) Apollo Delphi Cithaeron Thebes (the House of Cadamus) a winged female monster in Greek mythology having a womans head and a lions body and noted for killing anyone unable to answer its riddle an ancient Egyptian image in the form of a recumbent lion having a mans head, a rams head, or a hawks head Prologue (1-150) - Oedipus, Priest and Creon Read (1) Prologue, 1-150. (Priest, Oedipus, Creon) The priests of Thebes appear before Oedipus as suppliants, entreating him to find some end to the plague. Oedipus has already sent Creon to Delphi, who arrives to report that the killer of Laius must be sought out and banished. Oedipus vows to f