Oedipus Rex

Title: Oedipus Rex

Author: Sophocles

Publisher: Dover Thrift Editions

Publication Year: 1991

ISBN: 978486268774

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply Oedipus, as it is referred to by Aristotle in the Poetics.