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 father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by her mothers lover. Ajax depicts the enigma of power and weakness vis-輁is the fall of the great hero. Women of Trachis dramatizes the tragic love and error of Heracless deserted wife, Deianeira; Philoctetes examines the conflict between physical force and moral strength.
