Sophocles

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Sophocles - Philoctetes (Campbell Translation)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles...

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Sophocles - Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. The story begins with Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, relating...

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Sophocles - Ajax (Campbell Translation)

Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scholars regard it as an early work, c. 450 — 430 BC. It chronicles the fate of...

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Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation)

«Oedipus at Colonus» (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles'...

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Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Murray Translation)

«Oedipus Rex» (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as «Oedipus the King» or «Oedipus the Tyrant,» is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted...

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Sophocles - Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, «Antigone» has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience....

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Sophocles - Electra (Storr Translation)

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was...

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Sophocles - Electra

Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her...

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Sophocles - Antigone

This is the final installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother's body and is...

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Plays

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Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)

This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother,...

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Sophocles - Philoctetes

Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)

Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes...

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