Sophocles - Poetry 1

Les tragédies de Sophocles sont de pures merveilles du monde antique grec, prouvant si ce n’était pas le cas le génie de cette culture. Sur les 123 tragédies écrites par l’auteur, seulement 8 pièces……続きを見る

The most celebrated plays of ancient AthensーSophocles’s seven surviving worksーin vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays H……続きを見る

Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Philoketes is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic ne……続きを見る

Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Elektra is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new t……続きを見る

Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Women of Trakhis is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dyna……続きを見る

Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigoneーtogether known as The Oedipus Cycle. One ……続きを見る

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in Ne……続きを見る

Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man'sーin this play that challenged many established mores of Ancien……続きを見る

‘The Trachinian Maidens’ (also ‘Women of Trachis’ or ‘The Trachiniae’) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles, in which Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, is distraught over her husband's neglect of her ……続きを見る

Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and cl……続きを見る

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, 'Electra' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father……続きを見る

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek tragedies, ‘King Oedipus’ (or ‘Oedipus Rex’) is the first play in the Oedipus trilogy (followed by ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ and then ‘Antigone’). After defea……続きを見る

Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before he was born, his parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle prophesied that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. ……続きを見る

Included herein are the seven surviving plays of Athens’ pre-eminent playwright, Sophocles, masterfully translated by Lewis Campbell, M.A., LL.D. The plays included are: ‘Antigone,’ ‘Aias,’ ‘King Oe……続きを見る

Oedipus is one of the most well known mythological figures of the ancient Greeks, and he was immortalized in Sophocles trilogy of plays Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Each play ……続きを見る

Philoctetes was part of the Greek expedition to Troy. Before they arrived there, he was bitten by a snake when he unintentionally trespassed on the shrine of a nymph. Because the wound was divine, i……続きを見る

Sophocles Oedipus the King is widely considered one of the greatest plays ever written, despite its ancient roots. And it was admired by the Ancient Greeks as well, with no less than Aristotle asser……続きを見る

Sophocles was born in 495 B.C. into a wealthy family near Athens, and thus benefited from all the intellectual stimulation that Greece had to offer in its Golden Age. He studied the arts, and eventu……続きを見る

Oedipus is one of the most well known mythological figures of the ancient Greeks, and he was immortalized in Sophocles trilogy of plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Each play……続きを見る

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in Ne……続きを見る

Oedipus is one of the most well known mythological figures of the ancient Greeks, and he was immortalized in Sophocles trilogy of plays Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles ……続きを見る