Sophocles: Plays Two

Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton

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.

Author: Various
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 07/13/2009
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.01h x 4.36w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780413628800