This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains the seven surviving plays of ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, including his famous works OEDIPUS REX and ANTIGONE. Sophocles (c. 496 BC-406 BC) wrote more than 120 plays in a career spanning more than thirty years, although just seven complete plays have survived. He won numerous awards in his lifetime, usually besting his contemporaries Aeschylus and Euripides in competitions held during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Includes an active table of contents with back-linking for easy navigation.
• Antigone
• Ajax
• Oedipus The King
• Electra
• The Trachinian Maidens
• Philoctetes
• Oedipus At Colonos