Sophocles The Complete Plays

Here are the full texts of the seven extant plays of the Greek playwright Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.E.), regarded by the Greeks of his time as a kind of "tragic Homer, " and honored by the Athenians with sacrifices long after his death. This collection includes the revised and updated translation by Paul Roche of the Oedipus cycle - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone - as well as all-new translations of Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and the The Women of Trachis.Roche, Paul is the author of 'Sophocles The Complete Plays', published 2001 under ISBN 9780451527844 and ISBN 0451527844.