Table of Contents

Preface; Bibliography of short titles; 1. Introduction; 2. The mind of Ajax; 3. The burial of Ajax; 4. Trachiniae; 5. Sophocles and the irrational: three odes in Antigone; 6. Creon and Antigone; 7. Fate in Sophocles; 8. The fall of Oedipus; 9. Furies in Sophocles; 10. Electra; 11. Oedipus at Colonus; 12. Philoctetes; 13. Heroes and gods; Appendices; Select index.

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Professor Winnington-Ingram interprets seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and explores his tragic vision of the world.