Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King and Electra

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Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King and ElectraOxford World's Classics Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was

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probably in part because it was wrongly believed to be very early and hence 'primitive'

for some time in Athens

Placita long served as a manual of neatly packaged doxographic material on a wide variety of topics

and so fills in the gap made by the loss of Livy's later books

But the political realities of imperial Rome are also reflected in an obsessive concern with power and dominion over others

action-packed Iliad in miniature

and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers

a great work originally consisting of at least twelve books covering the period 69–96 CE

He was a follower of the Stoic tradition of philosophy

and an inspiration to countless writers

Luke Fitzwilliam is traveling by train to London when he has a very strange experience