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Thought to be Sophocles' earliest surviving play, Ajax is a study in archaic values. Sophocles' work is second to none, not even to Homer, in holding up the shame culture that so characterizes traditional social orders.

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This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.