TY - BOOK AU - Sophocles TI - Electra and other plays T2 - Penguin classics, L28 SN - 9780140440287 U1 - 882 PY - 1953/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Sophocles -- Translations into English N1 - Ajax -- Electra -- Women of Trachis -- Philoctetes N2 - 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. ER -