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A set of three linked Greek tragedies dramatizes fate, moral responsibility, and the clash between private duty and public law. In the first play a revered leader's inquiry into a civic plague unravels a hidden past and reveals that he has unknowingly fulfilled a dire oracle, prompting family catastrophe and self-inflicted punishment. The second follows his years of wandering and the search for a final resting place, while the third centers on a woman's defiance of state edict to perform burial rites for a kin, provoking a tragic standoff with the ruler and fatal consequences for both families.
1 (return)
[ Dr. Kennedy and others render “Since to men of experience I see that also
comparisons of their counsels are in most lively use.”]
2 (return)
[ Literally “not to call them thine,” but the Greek may be rendered “In order
not to reveal thine.”]
3 (return)
[ The Greek text that occurs in this place has been lost.]