Sophocles
1) Antigone
Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus
The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine...
7) Electra
'O Light! May I never look on you again,Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting,Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!'
The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496—406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. King Oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself.
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