Four Dramas of Maturity

Author: E. A. Sophocles
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0460877437

Four Dramas of Maturity: Aias, Antigone, Young Women of Trachie, Oidipous the King (Everyman Paperback)

This volume contains Sophocles first four surviving tragedies. Get Four Dramas of Maturity literature books for free.
"Aias" dramatizes the consequences of its hero's terrible delusion, when the goddess Athena sends Aias mad and he slaughters sheep and cattle, rather than his enemies. "Antigone" presents the disastrous conflict between Antigone's determination to bury her brother Polyneikes, and the new ruler Kreon's edict that he is an enemy of the state and, as such, does not deserve burial. In "Young Women of Trachis", Herakles' gentle wife Deianeria cannot accept her husband's mistres Iole into their home, but her attempt to rescue their marriage destroys them both. "Oedipus the King" is a pitiless reminder of the limits of human knowledge. Oedipus' quest to relieve his city from a plague leads Check Four Dramas of Maturity our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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"Aias" dramatizes the consequences of its hero's terrible delusion, when the goddess Athena sends Aias mad and he slaughters sheep and cattle, rather than his enemies. "Antigone" presents the disastrous conflict between Antigone's determination to bury her brother Polyneikes, and the new ruler Kreon's edict that he is an enemy of the state and, as such, does not deserve burial. In "Young Women of Trachis", Herakles' gentle wife Deianeria cannot accept her husband's mistres Iole into their home, but her attempt to rescue their marriage destroys them both. "Oedipus the King" is a pitiless reminder of the limits of human knowledge Aias" dramatizes the consequences of its hero's terrible delusion, when the goddess Athena sends Aias mad and he slaughters sheep and cattle, rather than his enemies. "Antigone" presents the disastrous conflict between Antigone's determination to bury her brother Polyneikes, and the new ruler Kreon's edict that he is an enemy of the state and, as such, does not deserve burial. In "Young Women of Trachis", Herakles' gentle wife Deianeria cannot accept her husband's mistres Iole into their home, but her attempt to rescue their marriage destroys them both. "Oedipus the King" is a pitiless reminder of the limits of human knowledge. Oedipus' quest to relieve his city from a plague leads

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