Electra and other plays

Sophocles

Electra and other plays - London: Penguin Books, 1953. - 217 pages ; - Penguin classics, L28. .

Ajax --
Electra --
Women of Trachis --
Philoctetes.


All three of the great tragic poets of ancient Greece produced plays about the Electra myth. If Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) lacks the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of Euripides, his version is supreme for its power and humanity.

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Sophocles -- Translations into English.

882 / SOP

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