num_pages: 608
description: Sophocles with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human norm - but who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end.Loeb Classical Library, #21. Volume 2 of 3 of the Loeb Classical Library Sophocles.Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero’s life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman’s conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles’s wife to regain her husband’s love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus’s intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).
language: Multiple languages
title: Antigone / The Women of Trachis / Philoctetes / Oedipus at Colonus
titlecomplete: Antigone / The Women of Trachis / Philoctetes / Oedipus at Colonus
characters: Ismene (sister of Antigone), Hyllus, Oedipus, Eurydice (wife of Creon), Heracles, Creon, Theseus (mythology), Neoptolemus, Odysseus, Deianeira (wife of Heracles), Philoctetes, Antigone, Lichas, Tiresias, Haemon, Polynices (son of Oedipus)
genres: Literature, Classics, Drama, Tragedy, Plays, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 126
places: Erebus (Greek Underworld), Thebes, Lemnos, Trachis
publisher: Harvard University Press