Sophocles - The Complete Greek Tragedies (17 books) torrent

SOPHOCLES (ca. 497/6 BCE - 406/5 BCE) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-fêted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia.

His most famous tragedies feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of the drama, most importantly by adding a third actor, thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

* ANTIGONE (Oxford University Press, 2003). Translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal.

* ANTIGONE, OEDIPUS THE KING & ELECTRA (Oxford World's Classics, 1994). Translated by H. D. F. Kitto; edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edith Hall. -- ePUB

* COMPLETE PLAYS (HarperCollins, 2011). Translated by Robert Bagg and James Scully. -- ePUB

* ELECTRA (Oxford University Press, 2001). Translated by Anne Carson, with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Shaw.

* FOUR TRAGEDIES: Ajaz, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Hackett, 2007). Translated with Introduction and Notes by Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff.

* OEDIPUS AT COLONUS (Oxford University Press, 2005). Translated by Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger.

* OEDIPUS TRILOGY: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone (1912; Duke Classics, 2012). Translated by F. Storr. -- ePUB

* PHILOCTETES (Oxford University Press, 2003). Translated by Carl Phillips, with an Introduction and Notes by Diskin Clay.

* THE PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS, with Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose (1883-1894; reprinted Cambridge University Press, 2010). Edited by Richard Claverhouse Jebb. 6 volumes.
Vol. 1: Oedipus Tyrannus.
Vol. 2: Oedipus Coloneus.
Vol. 3: Antigone.
Vol. 4: Philoctetes.
Vol. 5: Trachiniae.
Vol. 6: Electra.

* SELECTED POEMS: Odes and Fragments (Princeton University Press, 2008). Translated and Introduced by Reginald Gibbons.

* THE THEBAN PLAYS: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman.

* THE THEBAN PLAYS (Yale University Press, 2007). Translated by David R. Slavitt.