Antigone. the Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone. the Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles with Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

608 pages first pub 400 (editions)

fiction play dark reflective medium-paced

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Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at ...

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