Sophocles : Four Tragedies Instant

An old, blinded, and exiled Oedipus arrives at a sacred grove in Colonus seeking a final resting place. He is no longer a monster, but a figure of strange, holy power.

Sophocles didn’t just write plays; he mapped the blueprint of the human psyche. Of the 120-plus plays he penned for the Athenian festivals, only seven survived in full. Among them, a core quartet—, Oedipus at Colonus , Antigone , and Electra —stands as a monumental exploration of justice, family, and the crushing weight of destiny. Sophocles : four tragedies

While Euripides also wrote an Electra , Sophocles’ version is a masterclass in psychological endurance and the corrosive nature of revenge. An old, blinded, and exiled Oedipus arrives at