Ebook {Epub PDF} Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles

Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, and the posthumous Oedipus at Colonus. A substantial part of The Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third /5(58).  · Sophocles is best known for his trilogy of dramas known as the “Three Theban Plays”, which is comprised of the plays “Oedipus Rex”, “Oedipus at Colonus”, and “Antigone”. The remaining four extant plays are collected together in this volume of “Electra and Other Plays”. First in this collection we find “Ajax”, the oldest of Sophocles plays which unfolds the destiny of the warrior Ajax after the ISBN Sophocles' plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. This title contains plays such as: "Electra", "Ajax", "Women of Trachis" and "Philoctetes".

Electra and Other Plays ebook By Sophocles. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. Author. Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles; the first publication date is unknown. Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of Electra, scene by scene break-downs, and more. Electra and Other Plays: Women of Trachis/ Ajax/ Electra/ Philoctetes by Sophocles (Author)/ Easterling, Pat (Introduction by)/ Raeburn, David (Translated by) New.

Sophocles' plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. This title contains plays such as: "Electra", "Ajax", "Women of Trachis" and "Philoctetes". Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by her mother's lover. Electra and other plays by Sophocles; Watling, E. F. Publication date Topics Sophocles, Electra (Greek mythological figure), Electra (Greek mythological figure).