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Title	:	The Complete Plays
Author	:	Sophocles
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 420 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2001 by New American Library
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Drama. Fiction

The Complete Plays Paperback | Pages: 420 pages

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Here in one volume are the full texts of the seven extant plays of the Greek playwright Sophocles, regarded by the Greeks of his time as a kind of "tragic Homer". This collection includes the revised and updated translations by Paul Roche of the Oedipus cycle, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, as well as all-new translations of Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philocetes.

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ISBN:	0451527844 (ISBN13: 9780451527844)
Edition Language:	English

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Contains all the classics of Sophocles. Best ones: Antigone, Oidipoes, Electra.

I like these translations.

It is never a bad time to get right with the classics. After having read Oedipus and Antigone several times in multiple translations (Jebb, Arnott, Fagles) over the years, I decided to read all of Sophocless extant playsa mere seven out of 123 (civilization is fragile; dont let anyone tell you differently). I am here reading the version by poet and translator Paul Roche for Signet Classics. According to Wikipedia, Roche was a second-generation Bloomsberrie, enemy to Vanessa Bell and lover of

Aias - 3 Stars Women of Trakhis - 5 Stars Philoktetes - 4 StarsElektra - 4 Stars Oedipus the King - 4 Stars Oedipus at Kolonos - 5 Stars Antigone - 5 StarsA beautiful, simple translation. I only wish more than 7 of Sophocles' 125 plays had survived.

Very good edition by A. C. Pearson. This volume contains the Greek text of the surviving seven tragedies by Sophocles with critical apparatus, and an introduction. The title, introduction and notes of the critical apparatus are written in Latin, as it is customary in this Oxford scholarly editions.

I just finised reading all of Sophocles plays, except the 116 plays they have not found or have found only in fragments. There is a moral impulse in Sophocles which strikes me as commendable. The first thing I think of when I consider this aspect of his writings is not, "The savage!" but rather of how he, writing thousands of years ago, shared in common with the best of us moral sentiments we commend and recognize as good. There is a timeless good to certain moral acts of mankind. I would even

"Antigone" by Sophocles, (play read 20090807) ****. Antigone's two brothers have killed each other in a battle for kingship over Thebes. Creon, the new king, issues an edict that the body of the usurping brother, Polynices, should not be given the honors of burial but must be left out to the ravages of the elements and wild animals. Placing her duty to family and to the gods higher than her obedience to the state, Antigone refuses to heed Creon's command and buries her brother. Antigone's and