| Author/Contributor(s): | Sophocles ; Walton, J Michael ; McLeish, Kenneth ; Walton, J Michael ; Cannon, Robert |
| Publisher: | Methuen Drama |
| Date: | 07/13/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton
Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust.