Sophocles, The Women of Trachis
After completing his labours, Herakles finally returns home, sending ahead a young woman, Iole, to serve his bed. In an attempt to regain Herakles’ affection ...
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Trackers, Greek Ichneutai, satyr play by Sophocles. It is based on two stories about the miraculous early deeds of the god Hermes: that the infant, ...
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Sophocles’ Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes ...
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Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus tells the story of the last day in the life of Oedipus. It was written at the end of the ...
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“Ajax” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. Although the exact date of its first performance is unknown, most scholars date it ...
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Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around ...
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n his long life, Sophocles (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) wrote more than one hundred plays. Of these, seven complete tragedies remain, among ...
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