Sophocles

'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?<br/>Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?<br/>That's dreadful too.'<br/><br/>The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.<br/><br/>Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.<br/><br/>Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles's works available in Penguin Classics are<i> The Theban Plays </i>and <i>Electra and Other Plays.</i>

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles' 3-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus's search for the truth and its tragic results, remains essential reading for English and classical studies majors as well as for all students of Western civilization.

A contemporary version of Sophokles' tragedy, translated by T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson into a raw, beautiful and unshakable play.