The Theban plays

The timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles - 'Oedipus the Tyrant', 'Oedipus at Colonus', and 'Antigone' - have fascinated and moved audiences and readers across the ages with their haunting plots and their unforgettable heroes and heroines.

Now, following the best texts faithfully, and translating the key moral, religious, and poltical terminology of the plays accurately and consistently, Peter J.

Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle allow contemporary readers to study the most literally exact reproductions of precisely what Sophocles wrote, rendered in readily comprehensive English.