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Edited, with an introduction, by Robert W. Corrigan ANTIGONE, OEDIPUS THE KING ELECTRA, PHILOCTETES
In Modern Translations
Blurb: "It was above all Sophocles, the last great exponent of the archaic world-view, who expressed the full tragic significance of the old religious themes in their unsoftened, un-moralized forms-the overwhelming sense of human helplessness in face of the divine mystery, and the ate [destruction] that waits on all human achievementand who made these thoughts part of the cultural inheritance of Western man."
-E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational Antigone records the moving and dramatic legend of one of the greatest of Greek heroines who stood for the individual conscience against the evils of civil authority.
Oedipus the King, the first of the famous trilogy is undoubtedly Sophocles' masterpiece and considered by many the greatest of all classic tragedies.
Electra is Sophocles' outstanding contribution to the drama of character; a probing analysis of one who refused to compromise in her search for revenge.
Philoctetes, laid in the time of the Trojan War, is one of the most famous of Greek dramas and the only play by Sophocles to boast a happy ending.”