num_pages: 400
description: Sophocles created these three tragedies while he was in his eighties, as the faction-ridden Athenian democracy headed toward final defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The volume also includes surviving part of Sophocles' satire-drama Trackers, as well as other selected fragments.
language: English
title: Three Dramas of Old Age: Elektra, Philoktetes, Oidipous at Kolonos With Trackers and Other Selected Fragments
titlecomplete: Three Dramas of Old Age: Elektra, Philoktetes, Oidipous at Kolonos With Trackers and Other Selected Fragments (Everyman's Library)
genres: Classics
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Everyman