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  • The Philoctetes of Sophocles

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Sophocles ...
    Thomas Sheridan's 1725 English translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes opens with guidance for readers and a vivid cast of mythic figures, then plunges into a tragedy of abandonment, honor, and political deceit. On the desolate shore of Lemnos, Ulysses and the young Neoptolemus seek the forsaken Philoctetes, whose festering wound and lonely cries have made him a living emblem of Greek cruelty. ... Read more

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  • Philoktetes

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Sophocles ...
    Sophokles's Philoktetes is a quietly devastating tragedy of conscience, where the fate of Troy turns not on battlefield glory but on trust, deception, and the making of character. On the desolate shore of Lemnos, the abandoned Philoktetes lives in unbearable isolation after a serpent's bite, until Odysseus sends the young Neoptolemos to win his famous bow by lying to him. What begins as a military ... Read more

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  • αντιγόνη

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Sophocles ...
    Η Αντιγόνη του Σοφοκλή, σε νεοελληνική μετάφραση του Κ. Χρηστομάνου, παραμένει ένα από τα πιο ισχυρά έργα της παγκόσμιας δραματουργίας, όπου η ηθική συνείδηση συγκρούεται αμείλικτα με την κρατική εξουσία. Στον πυρήνα της βρίσκεται το δίλημμα ανάμεσα στον άγραφο, θεϊκό νόμο του καθήκοντος προς τους νεκρούς και στον ανθρώπινο νόμο της πολιτείας. Η αλύγιστη Αντιγόνη, απέναντι στον άτεγκτο Κρέοντα, ... Read more

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  • οιδίπους επί κολωνώ

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Sophocles ...
    Ο «Οιδίπους επί Κολωνώ» του Σοφοκλή, σε νεοελληνική μετάφραση του Ηλία Π. Βουτιερίδου, είναι ένα από τα πιο στοχαστικά ύστερα αριστουργήματα της αρχαίας τραγωδίας. Ο τυφλός, εξόριστος Οιδίποδας φτάνει με την Αντιγόνη σε ιερό τόπο της Αττικής, ακολουθώντας χρησμό που συνδέει τον θάνατό του με τις Ευμενίδες και τη μοίρα της Αθήνας. Η συνάντησή του με τον Χορό, τον Ξένο και αργότερα με τον Θησέα ... Read more

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  • The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

    by Benjamin Franklin, Plato, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Anonymous, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

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  • The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles

    by Sophocles ...
    Oedipus Trilogy is a compelling examination of fate, free will, and human suffering within the framework of Greek tragedy. Sophocles explores the inescapable nature of destiny and the tragic consequences of human actions, portraying a world where knowledge and ignorance are equally perilous. Through the stories of Oedipus, Jocasta, Antigone, and Creon, the trilogy delves into themes of prophecy, ... Read more

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  • The Greek Tragedies

    Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

    The most authoritative, accessible, and poetic translations of the Greek Tragedies ever produced, now in one volume!Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s collections of the complete Greek tragedies, expertly updated by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most, this collection brings together seventeen of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece. Combining ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Yale Classics (Vol. 1)

    Enriched edition. A Journey Through Greek Thought and Drama: The Origins of Western Literary Tradition

    Yale Classics (Vol. 1) is a comprehensive anthology that encapsulates the profound depth and breadth of ancient Greek literature. This collection traverses a diverse array of styles, from philosophical treatises and epic poetry to incisive dramas and lyrical endeavors, providing a holistic view of the intellectual and artistic achievements of the classical era. The volume includes standout ... Read more

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  • Antigone

    by Sophocles ...
    Under the cover of night, dutiful daughter Antigone sneaks out to bury her dead brother, angering the new King of Thebes. She is captured by the watchman and brought before the king, who sentences her to be buried alive in a cave. This decision sets off a chain of tragic events, costing several lives and cutting short the royal line of Thebes.The final chapter of the Theban plays, Antigone was the ... Read more

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  • The Seven Plays of Sophocles

    by Sophocles ...
    This file includes the English verse translation by Lewis Campbell of all seven extant Sophocles plays: Antigone, Aias. King Oedipus, Electra, The Tracinian Maidens, Philoctetes, and Oedippus at Colonos. According to Wikipedia: "Sophocles( c. 496 BC-406 BC) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and ... Read more

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  • The Seven Plays in English Verse

    by Sophocles ...
    Each play explores profound themes of fate, morality, and human suffering. Oedipus Rex, arguably Sophocles' most famous work, centers on the tragic downfall of King Oedipus, who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. In Antigone, the titular heroine defies King Creon’s orders to bury her brother, exploring the conflict between duty to the state and ... Read more

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  • The Seven Plays in English Verse

    Timeless Greek Tragedies in Poetic English Verse

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by Lewis Campbell ...
    In "The Seven Plays in English Verse," Sophocles, one of the greatest playwrights of ancient Greece, presents a striking collection of his most important tragedies, rendered in elegant verse by modern translators. This anthology captures the essence of human struggle, destiny, and moral conflict, showcasing Sophocles' mastery of dramatic structure and character development. The plays delve into ... Read more

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