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Antigone by Sophocles
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'. The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness. This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and crea ...Show more
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
17.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
OEDIPUS by SOPHOCLES
16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family. This vo ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
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 introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
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