num_pages: 550
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: German
title: Tragödien
titlecomplete: Tragödien
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Ancient, Drama, Historical Fiction, Mythology, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 4758
publisher: Artemis