Three dramas of superhuman suffering and triumph Sophocles created these three tragedies in his 80s, when Athens was heading towards final defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In all three dramas Sophocles attacks the contemporary trend towards an amoral philosophy of pure expediency they are centred around three towering individuals, who pursue their quest for revenge beyond normal human limits. The volume also includes the surviving part of Sophocles satyrdrama Trackers, and other selected fragments. The most comprehensive paperback available, with new accurate and actable translations, text summary, glossaries and chronology of Sophocles life and times, and extensive notes on the text and on the staging of the dramas