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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics) by Sophocles [Sophocles] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will
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- Author
- Sophocles [Sophocles]
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199537174
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Drama, Ancient & Classical
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (10,600 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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