false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158284851m/1538.jpg 1538 9 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, <i>Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone</i>, as well as all-new translations of <i>Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philocetes</i>. 6879889 1 3 2001 Sophocles: The Complete Plays total:157|5:70|4:51|3:33|2:3|1:0| 157 659 243 8 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:17:23 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 19:08:47 -0800 2009
I don't believe there is a more human story than "Oedipus Rex." If you haven't felt like Oedipus at Fate's complete and life-shattering mercy, than you certainly will--just wait!

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While I've never been a fan of 'Electra' and a couple of the other ones, I love 'Ajax' as well as all three of the 'Oediphus' writings (particularly 'Antigone'). I love seeing them all in one collection, well translated and easily understood by the modern day reader. ]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 15:52:37 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 12 17:04:10 -0700 2009 CHORUS: Where wisdom is, there happiness will crown
A piety that nothing will corrode
But high and mighty words and ways
Are flogged to humbleness, till age,
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