Sophocles Plays 2 : Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes Paperback / softback
by Sophocles
Edited by J. Michael Walton
Part of the Classical Dramatists series
Paperback / softback
Description
Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series.
Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:14/06/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413628800
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:14/06/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413628800
