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

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

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, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest ...

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

Pocket paperbacks of the world's great plays - at a great little price.

One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies. Translated and introduced by Walton and Macdonald.

Includes Oedipus the King , Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone .

This text of Sophocles is the product of close collaboration between the two editors and discussions in graduate seminars held in Oxford. The evidence of the manuscript tradition has been assessed and the results of one important discovery have been exploited.

A reprint of the translation previously published in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' timeless work is the most famous of all Greek tragedies.

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

The story of Electra is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians. In Sophocles' hands the focus is on Electra herself: her endurance and loyalty; her intense grief and her equally intense joy; and her final deliverance.

A text of and commentary on Sophocles' tragedy Antigone.

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.

Meineck and Woodruff's new translations of these plays combine accuracy with concision, clarity, and powerful speech. Each translation includes foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. The Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, plots and major characters of each play, and major critical interpretations of the plays.

This is an example of one of R.C. Jebb's editions of Sophocles' plays, originally appearing in the last years of the 19th century. He gives literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text.