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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.

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English translation, with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay. A new and provocative translation by an outstanding scholar.

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English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother and stepfather for the murder of their father. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays.

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English translation of Sophocles' famous tragedy of Oedipus and the fate he so much tries to avoid. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

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English translations of three plays centered around the mythological theme of the Greek hero, Odysseus: Sophocles' "Ajax" and Euripides' "Hecuba," and "Trojan Women" . All three plays are complete with notes and interpretive essays, an introduction to the ancient Greek theater and an essay on 'Odysseus on Stage'.

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Weineck and Wooduff's collaboration on this translation of Sophocles' classic work combines an intimate knowledge of the theatre with an ear for the spoken word. It features extensive anotation and stage directions.

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English translation. In Sophocles' last play, the aged playwright completes the story of Oedipus, who confronts the array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves. Includes maps, essays and suggestions for further reading. The text was revised in 2002 to be consistent with the other two volumes.

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First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff 's Sophocles: Four Tragedies, this rivetingtranslation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by PaulWoodruff.

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First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff 's Sophocles: Four Tragedies, this rivetingtranslation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by PaulWoodruff.

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English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet while on the way to Troy. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays.

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Sophocles' tragedies - from "Antigone" to "Oedipus Tyrannus" - are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Paying attention to the structure, language, and rhythm across Sophocles' writings, the author has translated a selection of odes from Sophocles' surviving plays as well as fragments from his lost works.

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The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex.