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  • 'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?
    Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?
    That's dreadful too.'

    The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.

    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.

    Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles's works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays and Electra and Other Plays.

Electra and Other Plays
Electra and Other Plays
Sophocles
Greek Tragedy
Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus (and others)
The Theban Plays
The Theban Plays
Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays
The Three Theban Plays
Sophocles
The Theban Plays
The Theban Plays
Sophocles
Little Black Classics

Penguin Little Black Classics

128 Books

Sophocles was born in 496 BC. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire. He wrote over a hundred plays, many of which are published as Penguin Classics, drawing on a wide and varied range of themes. E.F. Watling translated a range of Greek and Roman plays for Penguin, including the seven plays of Sophocles and the tragedies of Seneca.

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