Sophocles

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Greece

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	Antigone (Paperback) by Sophocles avg rating 3.58 — 2596 ratings — published 1999 45 editions	my rating:
	Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition (Paperback) by Sophocles avg rating 3.68 — 1953 ratings — published 1978 55 editions	my rating:
	Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback) by Sophocles avg rating 4.00 — 1446 ratings — published 1958 42 editions	my rating:
	Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Paperback) by Sophocles avg rating 4.09 — 320 ratings — published 1998	my rating:
	Electra (Drama Classics) by Sophocles avg rating 3.67 — 193 ratings — published 2004 10 editions	my rating:
	Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles avg rating 3.67 — 151 ratings — published 2004 8 editions	my rating:
	The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles II (Complete Greek Tragedies, No 4) [Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes] by Sophocles, David Grene, Michael Jameson avg rating 4.32 — 65 ratings — published 1969 2 editions	my rating:
	Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics) by Sophocles avg rating 4.33 — 60 ratings — published 2001 3 editions	my rating:
	Oedipus Rex and Antigone (Paperback) by Sophocles avg rating 3.63 — 68 ratings — published 2000 8 editions	my rating:
	Philoctetes (Paperback) by Sophocles avg rating 3.77 — 44 ratings — published 2004 10 editions	my rating:

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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life world: that word is love."
— Sophocles

tags: love, pain

"“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”

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— Sophocles

tags: oedipus, rex

"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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— Sophocles (Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations))

tags: death