Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred Plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive.
Women of Trachis dramatizes the.
Ajax depicts the enigma of power and weakness vis-avis the fall of the great hero.
Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by her mother\'s lover.
This volume collects four of them, all newly translated.
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred Plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive