This study group will read aloud and discuss the three Theban plays of Sophocles. We will get to know something of the Sophoclean hero. He demonstrates, as Bernard Knox puts it, “that man’s keenest sight is blindness, his highest knowledge ignorance, his soaring confidence and hope an illusion.” We will watch “The Gospel at Colonus” and see excerpts from film treatments of “Oedipus Rex” and “Antigone.” The text is Robert Fagles’ “The Three Theban Plays of Sophocles.” Marilyn Scott was a lecturer in classics and great books at U of M and taught Latin and English literature at Community High School.