The Greek text of Sophocles play Antigone preceded by a full introduction and followed by a commentary which provides help with language metre and cultural references and is also concerned with issues of performance. Sophocles Antigone is probably the most widel... Lees meer.

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Tells the story of Greek tragedy s most intrepid heroine. It s a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now. Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin. That s dreadful too. The remarkable story of Greek tragedy s most intrepid heroine.Introducing Little Black Classics.... Lees meer.

Free when packaged with any Damrosch World Literature title. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy Sophocles The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with in... Lees meer.

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 . Demonstrating Sophocles aptitude for... Lees meer.

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A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama featuring all-new highly accessible translations of some of the world s most beloved plays including Agamemnon Prometheus Bound Bacchae Electra Medea Antigone and Oedipus the KingFeaturing translations by... Lees meer.

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Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war Electra recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father Agamemnon.... Lees meer.

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 g... Lees meer.

Koning Oedipus Oudgrieks. Latijn. Oedipus Tyrannus of Oedipus Rex is een tragedie van de oud-Griekse tragediedichter Sophocles Een tiental jaar v r de actie van het stuk begint werd Oedipus door de inwoners van Thebe aangesteld als hun koning uit dank omdat hi... Lees meer.

Considered by many the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies Oedipus Rex is Sophocles finest play and a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Aristotle considered it a masterpiece of dramatic construction and refers to it frequently in the Poetics. In present... Lees meer.

Under the cover of night dutiful daughter Antigone sneaks out to bury her dead brother angering the new King of Thebes. She is captured by the watchman and brought before the king who sentences her to be buried alive in a cave. This decision sets off a chain of trag... Lees meer.

Presents tales such as King Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone . King Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired S... Lees meer.