by Sófocles · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420674643
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«Áyax. Las Traquinias. Antígona. Edipo Rey» is a volume of tragedies by Sophocles, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback, with 336 pages, in Spanish.
Volume bringing together four tragedies by Sophocles (c. 495-c. 406 BC), a central figure of ancient Greek theatre: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Antigone and Oedipus Rex. They combine fate, human suffering and the individual's conflict with the universal order.
Included in the El libro de bolsillo collection, Classics of Greece and Rome series. Translation and prologue by José María Lucas de Dios from the Greek text.
A title for the general public interested in classical literature and the theatre of ancient Greece.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
