Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus (Loeb Classical Library 20)

by Sophocles (Author), Sophocles (Author), Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $32.21

  Sophocles (497/6 406 BCE), considered one of the world s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr drama The Searchers.