Sophocles
1) Antigone
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
English translations of three plays centered around the mythological theme of the Greek hero, Odysseus: Sophocles' "Ajax" and Euripides' "Hecuba," and "Trojan Women" . All three plays are complete with notes and interpretive essays, an introduction to the ancient Greek theater and an essay on 'Odysseus on Stage'.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Oedipus the King, often regarded as the archetypal tragedy, follows Oedipus, the 'man of sorrow', who has unwittingly chosen to enact his prophesied course by murdering his father and marrying his mother. -- Aias (or Ajax) tells the story of the warrior whose larger-than-life greatness brings him to harrowing humiliation and then to honourable burial. -- Philoctetes sees a once-noble hero, nursing his resentment during ten years in marooned isolation,...
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 4
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica, c1990
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
12) Oedipus Rex
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.