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1Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)

By Sophocles

Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence. (Summary by Wikipedia)<br><br> <strong>Cast:</strong><br> Oedipus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/152">Andy Minter</a><br> Priest of Zeus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3346">Hannah Dowell</a><br> Creon: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1469">Fr. Richard Zeile</a><br> Teiresias: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3286">BrianaTheBard</a><br> Jocasta: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2961">Leni</a><br> Messenger: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1944">Carolyn Francis</a><br> Second Messenger: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3416">pipsoul</a><br> Herd of Laius: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1085">hefyd</a><br> Chorus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5269">Musicalheart1</a><br> Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br><br> <strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Elizabeth Klett

2Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)

By Sophocles

This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves Thebes, to wander in the wilderness accompanied by his daughters Antigone and Ismene. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)<br /><br /> <strong>Cast:</strong><br /> Oedipus: Andy Minter<br /> Antigone: Elizabeth Klett<br /> Ismene: Arielle Lipshaw<br /> Theseus: Mark F. Smith<br /> Creon: Bruce Pirie<br /> Polyneices: David Goldfarb<br /> Stranger: Lucy Perry<br /> Messenger: Martin Geeson<br /> Chorus: Lars Rolander<br /> Narrator: David Lawrence<br /><br /> <strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Elizabeth Klett

3Antigone

By Sophocles

This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother's body and is sentenced to death. She clashes with Creon, the King of Thebes, over what constitutes justice and morality: the laws of the state or the laws of the individual. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)<br /><br /> <strong>Cast:</strong><br>Antigone: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Ismene: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3536">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Creon: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3699">Bruce Pirie</a><br>Haemon: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1492">mb</a><br>Eurydice: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3615">Lucy Perry</a><br>Tiresias: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>Guard: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>Chorus, Second Messenger: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2234">Lars Rolander</a><br>Messenger: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5141">David Goldfarb</a><br>Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2911">David Lawrence</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Elizabeth Klett

4Electra

By Sophocles

Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her achieve her ends. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) <strong>Cast:</strong><br>Old Man: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>Orestes: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5141">David Goldfarb</a><br>Electra: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Chorus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5339">Lauren McCullough</a><br>Chrysothemis: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5622">Roseanne Schmidt</a><br>Clytemnestra: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2297">Philippa</a><br>Aegisthus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5635">Matthew Reece</a><br>Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Elizabeth Klett

5Philoctetes

By Sophocles

Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need Philoctetes and his bow (given to him by Heracles before his death) in order to defeat the Trojans. The problem is that years before Odysseus had engineered Philoctetes' abandonment on the island, due to a festering, stinking wound he had received from a snakebite. Will Philoctetes forgive and forget, or will he take his revenge? (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)<br><br> <strong>Cast</strong><br> Odysseus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3699">Bruce Pirie</a><br> Neoptolemus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1492">mb</a><br> Chorus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6482">Delmar H. Dolbier</a><br> Philoctetes: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br> Messenger: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br> Heracles/Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br><br> <strong>Audio editing:</strong> Elizabeth Klett</strong>

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. - Summary by Wikipedia

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience. Antigone's heroic resistance to Creon's petty, capricious, and unbending law has a never-ending relevance even in the third millennium CE. The play was written at a time of national fervor. In 441 BC, shortly after the play was released, Sophocles was appointed as one of the ten generals to lead a military expedition against Samos. It is striking that a prominent play in a time of such imperialism contains little political propaganda, no impassioned apostrophe, and, with the exception of the epiklerate (the right of the daughter to continue her dead father's lineage), and arguments against anarchy, makes no contemporary allusion or passing reference to Athens. Rather than become sidetracked with the issues of the time, Antigone remains focused on the characters and themes within the play. It does, however, expose the dangers of the absolute ruler, or tyrant, in the person of Creon, a king to whom few will speak freely and openly their true opinions, and who therefore makes the grievous error of condemning Antigone, an act which he pitifully regrets in the play's final lines. Athenians, proud of their democratic tradition, would have identified his error in the many lines of dialogue which emphasize that the people of Thebes believe he is wrong, but have no voice to tell him so. - Summary by Wikipedia (edited and supplemented by Expatriate)

"Oedipus Rex" (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as "Oedipus the King" or "Oedipus the Tyrant," is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as "Oedipus, King of Thebes"). It was the second in order of Sophocles's composition of his three plays dealing with Oedipus. Thematically, however, it was the first in the trilogy's historical chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. "Oedipus the King" tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall (as opposed to making fate the sole cause). Over the centuries, "Oedipus Rex" has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence. - Summary by Wikipedia (edited & supplemented by Expatriate)

"Oedipus at Colonus" (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays, the events of "Oedipus at Colonus" occur after "Oedipus the King" and before "Antigone"; however, it was the last of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be written. The play describes the end of Oedipus' tragic life. Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus' death; Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and also Sophocles' own birthplace, where the blinded Oedipus has come with his daughters Antigone and Ismene as suppliants of the Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens. Summary by Wikipedia

Traducidas al castellano por José Alemany Bolufer, en esta edición de 1921, se ofrecen "juntas en un tomo y vertidas del original griego" las siete tragedias de Sófocles: Áyax, Electra, Edipo Rey, Edipo En Colono, Antígona, Las Traquinias y Filoctetes.De hecho, son las únicas que se han conservado de las 123 que se le atribuyen. Sófocles, se sitúa, junto con Esquilo y Eurípides, entre las figuras más destacadas de la tragedia griega. (summary by phileasfogg)

Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scholars regard it as an early work, c. 450 - 430 BC. It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events of the Iliad, but before the end of the Trojan War. At the onset of the play, Ajax is enraged because Achilles' armor was awarded to Odysseus, rather than to him. He vows to kill the Greek leaders who disgraced him. Before he can enact his extraordinary revenge, though, he is tricked by the goddess Athena into believing that the sheep and cattle that were taken by the Achaeans as spoil are the Greek leaders. Much of the play shows the disintegration of Ajax in the face of this humiliation, leading ultimately to his suicide. - Summary by Wikipedia (edited by Expatriate)

12Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

By Sophocles

Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. The story begins with Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, relating the story of her early life and her plight adjusting to married life. She is now distraught over her husband's neglect of her family. Often involved in some adventure, he rarely visits them. She sends their son Hyllus to find him, as she is concerned over prophecies about Heracles and the land he is currently in. After Hyllus sets off, a messenger arrives with word that Heracles, victorious in his recent battle, is making offerings on Cape Cenaeum and coming home soon to Trachis. But Heracles' arrival with a beautiful young slave girl complicates the marital situation more than ever, leading to desperate measures on the part of Deianeira and a tragic denouement. - Summary by Wikipedia (edited by Expatriate)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles to have survived the ravages of time in its complete form. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes, the master archer, with them to Troy. - Summary by Wikipedia

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles to have survived the ravages of time in its complete form. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes, the master archer, with them to Troy. - Summary by Wikipedia