Sophocles

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2011
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The Oedipus Trilogy - The Original Classic Edition

    Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother, is the subject of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, a series of three tragedies that tell a connected story. Despite their antiquity, these timeless works bring up ...

  • Oedipus Trilogy

    Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before he was born, his parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle prophesied that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment...

  • Oedipus

  • Oedipus at Colonus

    Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles is one of the most beloved tales of all time. Originally performed in 401 BCE, Oedipus at Colonus is still beloved to this day! Don't miss out on this classic tale! Read Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles today!...

  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus The King by Sophocles is one of the most beloved tales of all time. Originally performed in 429 BCE, Oedipus The King is still beloved to this day! Don't miss out on this classic tale! Read Oedipus The King by Sophocles today!...

  • Sophocles Antigone

    Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undert...

  • Sophocles Oedipus the King

    Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undert...

  • Antigone

    The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta,the eponymous Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury ...

  • Sophocles

    Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undert...



  • Antigone In Plain and Simple English

  • The Oedipus plays of Sophocles

  • Oedipus King of Thebes

    Oedipus steps out of the royal palace of Thebes and is greeted by a procession of priests, who are in turn surrounded by the impoverished and sorrowful citizens of Thebes. The citizens carry branches wrapped in wool, which they offer to the gods as g...

  • Philoktetes

    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...

  • The Seven Plays

    Sophocles, is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, S...

  • The Three Theban Plays

    Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox. Collec...

  • The Oedipus Legacy

    In this famous work from the origins of Greek thought, the hero Oedipus is sent to his death bed as an infant when an oracle predicts that he will kill his kingly father, and marry his mother. Being unable to kill him, the father passes him off to a ...

  • Oedipus Rex

    Oedipus the King also 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, fol...

  • The Tragedies of Sophocles

    The Tragedies of Sophocles contains classics such as Oedipus and Antigone, translated into English in 1917....

  • The Theban Plays

    The Theban plays comprise three plays: Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. All three concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published u...



  • Aias

    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in ord...

  • The Oedipus Tyrannus

    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...

  • The Philoctetes

  • The Trachiniae

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    The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sophocles has published 23 books.

Sophocles does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Philoctetes, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Sophocles, The Oedipus Trilogy - The Original Classic Edition, was published in November 2011.

No. Sophocles does not write books in series.
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