
Greek Tragedy
by Sophocles
Title:
Greek Tragedy
Author:
Sophocles
Edited by:
Goldhill, Simon
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
352 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780141439365
EAN:
9780141439365
Publication Date:
26/08/2004
Classifications:
Ancient, classical and medieval texts
Weight (g):
382
Dimensions (mm):
196 x 130 x 23
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus''s Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles'' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father.Medea is the terrible story of a woman''s bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.




















