Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Oedipus the King; Electra
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2008
Summary
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 greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles’ reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a te…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199537174 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199537178 |
| Author: | Sophocles, H.D.F. Kitto, Edith Hall |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 169g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Sophocles
Edith Hall is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, and the author of Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy (OUP 1989).
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