Electra and Other Plays - Ajax & Women of Trachic & Philoctetes

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Ajax/Electra/Women of Trachis/Philoctetes

�Now that he is dead,

I turn to you; will you be brave enough

To help me kill the man who killed our father?�

Sophocles� innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father Agamemnon, who has been killed by her mother�s lover. Aeschylus and Euripides also dramatized this story, but the objectivity and humanity of Sophocles� version provides a new perspective

Depicting the fall of a great hero, Ajax examines the enigma of power and weakness combined in one being, while the Women of Trachis portrays the tragic love and error of Heracles� deserted wife Deianeira, and Philoctetes deals with the conflict between physical force and moral strength

E. F. Watling�s vivid translation is accompanied by an introduction in which he discusses Sophocles� use of a third actor to create new dramatic situations and compares the different treatments of the Electra myth by the three great tragic poets of classical Athens
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