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Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
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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 (adapted by Jane Montgomery Griffiths)
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Category: Plays
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
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
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Category: Classics
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
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Sophocles (497/6406 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 least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, coura ...Show more
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Sophocles (497/6406 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 least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, coura ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
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