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Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
In Antigone, Sophocles writes of the hardship befalling the daughter of Oedipus, the star of three previous tragedies by the master of the form. The story centers on her brother's death and her quest to obtain an honorable burial for him. Antigone breaks the King's law forbidding the burial of her broth ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles (adapted by Jane Montgomery Griffiths)
Category: Classics
Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and readers requires careful guidance if the ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Reference | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'. The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness. This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and crea ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Reference | Series: Drama Classics S.
A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights. The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone s brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
Category: Non-Fiction
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
Elektra: A New Translation by Sophocles
Category: Non-Fiction
Spotlighting an endless cycle of bloodshed that consumes a royal family, "Elektra" masterfully explores the causes of hatred and the consequences of revenge - both for those who bear the brunt of violence and for those consumed by its influence. Orestes has returned to his homeland intent on exacting a ...Show more
Four Tragedies - Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles; Peter Meineck (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by); Paul Woodruff (Notes by, Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the th ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
OEDIPUS THE KING AND OTHER TRAGEDIES OEDIPUS THE KING AIAS PHILOCTETES OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by SOPHOCLES
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths ...Show more
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift S.
One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies impact of agonizing events. Sophocles' finest pl ...Show more