Ajax/Electra/Oedipus Tyrannus
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Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE), 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.
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Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus(which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax(a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra(the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father).
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