This volume contains three masterworks by Sophocles, widely regarded as the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights. These vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection of Antigone , Oedipus the King , and Electra not only offers the reader the most influential and famous of Sophocles' works, it also presents in one volume two plays dominated by a female heroic ...
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This volume contains three masterworks by Sophocles, widely regarded as the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights. These vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection of Antigone , Oedipus the King , and Electra not only offers the reader the most influential and famous of Sophocles' works, it also presents in one volume two plays dominated by a female heroic figure.
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