by Sófocles · Editorial Edaf, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471667380
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«Tragedias» is the volume collecting Sophocles' tragedies, published by Editorial Edaf in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
It includes the seven surviving tragedies: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Electra, Ajax, The Trachiniae and Philoctetes. Heroes and cursed dynasties confront fate, guilt and divine justice in plots about power, revenge and the human condition.
Number 138 of the Biblioteca Edaf collection, with a prologue by Luis Alberto de Cuenca and a translation from the Greek by Fernando Segundo Brieva.
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.
