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Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles and David D. Mulroy

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Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and...

Betty Fussell recommended The Odyssey in Books (curated)

"In my 30s I tried to teach myself classical Greek so I could read Homer and Sophocles. Of course I failed because their words were mouthed not read. But the stories Homer retold of the fall of empires and the longing for home are as vivid today as a thousand years ago. From him I learned why I love grilled meats."

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Electra

Sophocles and Frank McGuinness

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Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination,...

Emily Wilson recommended Helen in Books (curated)

Helen

Euripides, Frank McGuinness | 2009 | Film & TV

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"Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were all constantly responding to, or writing back against, the Homeric poems. The Athenian tragedy that is maybe most deeply engaged with rewriting and recreating “The Odyssey,” is Euripides' “Helen”, a provocative, brainy, funny play about the myth that Helen never went to Troy in the first place—the same myth that is central to HD's brilliant sequence “Helen in Egypt.” I translated the Euripides “Helen,” for a collection of Greek tragedy translations, “The Greek Plays.”"

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