num_pages: 464
description: The dominant Athenian playwright in 5th-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as they render the violence that erupts within divinity &amp; humankind. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos &amp; Antigone trace three generations of a family manipulated by the inscrutably vindictive god Apollo to commit patricide, incest &amp; kin murder. Elektra &amp; Women of Trakhis begin as studies of women obsessed with hatred &amp; desire but become dissenting critiques of the Greeks’ enthusiasm for revenge &amp; ego-crazed heroics. Two hard-hitting dramas set in war zones, Aias &amp; Philoktetes, use conflicts among Greek warriors at Troy to thrash out political &amp; ethical crises confronting Athenian society itself.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Tragedias
titlecomplete: Tragedias
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Ancient, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 4758
publisher: Edaf S.A.