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Sophocles: Plays Two - (Classical Dramatists) (Paperback)

Sophocles: Plays Two - (Classical Dramatists) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>These exciting, agonizing plays about the nature of tragedy and the human capacity to endure emotional and physical suffering are presented in sharp, lucid translations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton <p/><br>Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust.</p>

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