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Sophocles' Complete Plays (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Sophocles' Complete PlaysThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides not only in the number of plays he wrote but also in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven works in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the my...
Full description- Publisher: Bantam USA
- Published: 01 January 1988
- Format: Paperback 261 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
- ISBN 13: 9780553213546 ISBN 10: 0553213547
- Sales rank: 143,979
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Full description for Sophocles' Complete Plays
The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides not only in the number of plays he wrote but also in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven works in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, saw life steadily and saw it whole.
