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Sophocles' plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. This title contains plays such as: "Electra", "Ajax", "Women of Trachis" and "Philoctetes".

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A Student Edition of Sophocles' greatest tragedy in Don Taylor's acclaimed translation. With full commentary, notes and questions for further study this is the perfect edition for every student of drama, literature and classics.

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Presents tales such as "King Oedipus", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone".

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A new and provocative work by outstanding scholar Ruby Blondell. The three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle in one volume: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus.

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In a new adaptation for London's Gate Theatre, award winning British playwright Nick Payne retells the story of Sophocles Electra in a visceral and powerful new stage version.

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This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb

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R.C. Jebb's editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last years of the 19th century. They are distinguished by the author's sensitive, literary and dramatic interpretations and his neat translations that face the Greek text.

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A rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle.

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Antigone, a strong and determined woman in Thebes, fights for humanity over King Creon's laws and in doing so risks her life.

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With the Trojan War won, the Greeks' last great hero, Aias, has suddenly become obsolete. The world is changing - as he witnesses when the armor of his fallen cousin Achilles is awarded not to him but to his crafty comrade Odysseus. When Aias swears vengeance, the goddess Athena clouds his mind with madness.

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Tells the story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.

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Oedipus' sons have slain each other on the battlefield, but Kreon, their uncle and Thebes's new ruler, has decreed that only Eteokles be buried. Polyneikes will be left to rot - the greatest dishonor imaginable for a Greek warrior.

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Orestes has returned to his homeland intent on exacting a bloody vengeance upon its rulers: his mother Klytemnestra and his step-father Aegisthus, who together murdered Orestes' father, Agamemnon. The prince's sister, Elektra, has long awaited his return, fueding with Klytemnestra over her mother's moral justifications for killing Agamemnon.

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Oedipus is an old man finally coming to terms with the terrible actions of his earlier life. As he struggles to accept his fate, he also questions his guilt in his past crimes - transgressions manipulated by the will of the gods. With war now raging over his succession, Oedipus must make his final decision alone.

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With a plague ravishing Thebes, it falls upon Oedipus, the king, to discover its cause. Yet in consulting the blind prophet Tiresias, Oedipus uncovers not only the roots of the gods' displeasure but also a dreadful secret about his own past.

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The soldier Philoktetes - with a festering, god-given wound in his foot - has been abandoned on the desolate island of Lemnos by the Greeks under Odysseus. They couldn't stand the stench, nor his screams of pain. That was ten years ago. Since then, they've learned they can't take Troy without Philoktetes and the bow given to him by Herakles.

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Includes the full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles, with Roche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle and all-new translations of the remaining plays. Revised reissue.

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Sophocles was the dominant Athenian playwright of the fifth century BCE. This translation includes his best-known work, such as the "Oedipus cycle" ("Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Kolonos", and "Antigone"), "Elektra and the Women of Trakhis" "Philoktetes" and "Aias".

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Sophocles' immortal Oedipus plays personify both the cosmic and the all-too-human forces that wreak emotional and physical mayhem upon the lives of a stricken royal family. This title presents a translation of the entire "Oedipus Cycle".

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Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most accessible and may have had the most extensive influence on Western Culture, not least because Freud took from the Theban Plays the name and the idea of the Oedipus complex.

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Deianeira is an ordinary woman married to Herakles, the most feared and storied hero of the ancient world. To keep his affection and preserve her marriage, she must cope with her anxieties about his deadly labors and escapades, and must force herself to tolerate the conduct of a man whose volatile will is impossible to sway or question.