Sophocles:
Antigone / With Oedipus The King
/ And Electra
Editor: EdithHall, Translator: H.D.F.Kitto
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 224 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199537174
ISBN-10: 0199537178
List price: £5.99
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Antigone / With Oedipus The King / And Electra
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's 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 test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a

