Synopsis
Sophocles Plays 2 - Ajax & Women of Trachis & Electra & Philoctetes
Published by Methuen
In Women of Trachis the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles
In Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother
And finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust