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Four Dramas of Maturity - "Aias", "Antigone", "Young Women of Trachis", "Oidipous the King" (Paperback)
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Four Dramas of Maturity - "Aias", "Antigone", "Young Women of Trachis", "Oidipous the King" (Paperback)
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This volume contains Sophocles first four surviving tragedies. "Aias" dramatizes the consequences of its hero's terrible delusion, when the goddess Athena sends Aias mad and he slaughters sheep and cattle, rather than his enemies. "Antigone" presents the disastrous conflict between Antigone's determination to bury her brother Polyneikes, and the new ruler Kreon's edict that he is an enemy of the state and, as such, does not deserve burial. In "Young Women of Trachis", Herakles' gentle wife Deianeria cannot accept her husband's mistres Iole into their home, but her attempt to rescue their marriage destroys them both. "Oedipus the King" is a pitiless reminder of the limits of human knowledge. Oedipus' quest to relieve his city from a plague leads him to the horrific discovery that he has murdered his own father and married his mother. This study edition contains both the texts and commentary upon them.
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