Sophocles is an ancient Greek poetry poet, one of the three great representatives of the ancient tragedy. In terms of life and the nature of creativity, he takes a place between Aeschylus and Euripid. The worldview and skill of Sophocles are marked by the desire for the equilibrium of the new and the old: the glorifying the power of a free man, the playwright warned against the violation of the “divine laws”; Complicating the psychological characteristics, retained the general monumentality of images and composition.
In this publication, readers are offered the most famous tragedies of Sophocles, which have become a classic model of the genre: Oedipus-Tsar, Oedipus in the Colon and Antigon, Ayanth and Electra.
Author
Sophocles
Translator
Shervinsky Sergey Vasilievich, Pozdnyakov N. S.
Publisher
ABC, 2022
Series
Classic (soft)
16+
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