Oedipus at Colonus [Oedipus Coloneus]

Oedipus at Colonus [Oedipus Coloneus]

Sophocles. tr. Cambridge

London: Hall, 1844. The Tragedies of Sophocles, in English prose, a new literal translation, with copious notes. pp. 55-114

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1844

1857-04-16: George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, St. Mary's, 16 April [1857]. "We are enjoying a retrogression to old-fashioned reading: -- George buries himself in big physiological books, German French and English, with broad pages spreading like a prairie, unbroken by paragraph or quotation; I rush on the slightest pretext to Sophocles and am as excited about blind old Œdipus as any young lady can be about the latest hero with magnificent eyes." GEL 2: 319
1857-04-22: "22. Letter from my Brother saying Chrissey is worse. I am deeply depressed and feeling the ills of life more than the blessings, though these are so many. A letter from Barbara too. Reading the Oedipus Coloneus and Shelley. I have begun Draper's Physiology, too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it. Tonight we finished Aurora Leigh for the second time." Diary 1854-1861 68

Sophocles. tr. Cambridge, Oedipus at Colonus [Oedipus Coloneus], George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57713

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