Plays Two

Synopsis

Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series.

Introduced by series editor J Michael WaltonIncludes 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.

Themes

• Drama in Greek, to 500 - Texts
• Greek drama (Tragedy)--Translations into English
• Greek drama (Tragedy)
• Mythology, Greek--Drama
• PA4414.A2 W35 1990
• Sophocles