Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Antigone

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Storr ...

The last of the Theban Plays tells the story of Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus. She defies the orders of her uncle, King Creon, who has declared her brother Polynices a traitor and forbids his burial after he dies in battle. Driven by her religious duty and love for her family, Antigone secretly buries him. Her actions lead to her arrest, and despite Creon's attempts to persuade her with ... Read more

$2.99 USD

The last of the Theban Plays tells the story of Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus. She defies the orders of her uncle, King Creon, who has declared her brother Polynices a traitor and forbids his burial after he dies in battle. Driven by her religious duty and love for her family, Antigone secretly buries him. Her actions lead to her arrest, and despite Creon's attempts to persuade her with
... Read more
Philoctetes

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Storr ...

Philoctetes is a master archer who, during the Trojan War, is bitten by a snake and cursed with a foul-smelling, incurable wound. Odysseus abandons him on the island of Lemnos with a bow given to him by Heracles as his only companion.Ten years later, a prophecy reveals to the Greeks that Philoctetes and his legendary bow will be necessary to win the Trojan War. This forces Odysseus and Neoptolemus ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Philoctetes is a master archer who, during the Trojan War, is bitten by a snake and cursed with a foul-smelling, incurable wound. Odysseus abandons him on the island of Lemnos with a bow given to him by Heracles as his only companion.Ten years later, a prophecy reveals to the Greeks that Philoctetes and his legendary bow will be necessary to win the Trojan War. This forces Odysseus and Neoptolemus
... Read more
Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Storr ...

The once-powerful King Oedipus, now blind and broken, arrives at the sacred grove of Colonus near Athens, searching for a place to rest. Having suffered the tragic consequences of his unintentional crimes-killing his father and marrying his mother-Oedipus reflects on his anguish and the curse that has haunted his life. With the support of his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he seeks solace and a ... Read more

$2.99 USD

The once-powerful King Oedipus, now blind and broken, arrives at the sacred grove of Colonus near Athens, searching for a place to rest. Having suffered the tragic consequences of his unintentional crimes-killing his father and marrying his mother-Oedipus reflects on his anguish and the curse that has haunted his life. With the support of his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he seeks solace and a
... Read more
Electra

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Storr ...

Sophocles' Electra is a tragedy that follows Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, as she seeks revenge for her father's murder at the hands of her mother and her mother's lover Aegisthus. Mourning her father's death, Electra yearns for justice and the return of her brother, Orestes, who has been exiled. When Orestes returns, the siblings plot and carry out the murders of ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Sophocles' Electra is a tragedy that follows Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, as she seeks revenge for her father's murder at the hands of her mother and her mother's lover Aegisthus. Mourning her father's death, Electra yearns for justice and the return of her brother, Orestes, who has been exiled. When Orestes returns, the siblings plot and carry out the murders of
... Read more
Ajax

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Storr ...

Ajax by Sophocles is a Greek tragedy that tells the story of Ajax, a warrior in the Trojan War. After the armor of the slain Achilles is awarded to Odysseus instead of him, Ajax is consumed by rage and humiliation. In his madness, he attempts to kill the Greek leaders, but is tricked by the goddess Athena into attacking livestock instead. When he regains his senses, Ajax chooses to take his own ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Ajax by Sophocles is a Greek tragedy that tells the story of Ajax, a warrior in the Trojan War. After the armor of the slain Achilles is awarded to Odysseus instead of him, Ajax is consumed by rage and humiliation. In his madness, he attempts to kill the Greek leaders, but is tricked by the goddess Athena into attacking livestock instead. When he regains his senses, Ajax chooses to take his own
... Read more
Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Francis Storr ...

Many years after Oedipus famously solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended to the throne, a curse descends upon Thebes in the form of a terrible plague. This persistent blight ravages the land: crops wither in the fields, livestock succumbs to sickness, and families lose women and children. In this dire time, Creon, Oedipus's brother, returns from the Oracle of Delphi. He brings news of a cure ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Many years after Oedipus famously solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended to the throne, a curse descends upon Thebes in the form of a terrible plague. This persistent blight ravages the land: crops wither in the fields, livestock succumbs to sickness, and families lose women and children. In this dire time, Creon, Oedipus's brother, returns from the Oracle of Delphi. He brings news of a cure
... Read more
Oedipus King of Thebes

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Sophocles ...

Gilbert Murray's translation of Sophocles' Oedipus King of Thebes presents one of tragedy's most relentless and enduring masterpieces in vivid rhyming English verse. Set in an archaic religious world of pollution, taboo, kingship, and divine judgment, the play feels shaped by forces older than reason itself, yet utterly sincere in its treatment of guilt, fate, and human helplessness. Murray ... Read more

$1.99 USD

Gilbert Murray's translation of Sophocles' Oedipus King of Thebes presents one of tragedy's most relentless and enduring masterpieces in vivid rhyming English verse. Set in an archaic religious world of pollution, taboo, kingship, and divine judgment, the play feels shaped by forces older than reason itself, yet utterly sincere in its treatment of guilt, fate, and human helplessness. Murray
... Read more
The Trachiniae

by Sophocles ...

Translated by Storr ...

The Trachiniae is one of Sophocles' lesser-known plays, yet it remains a powerful exploration of fate, suffering, and human fallibility. Though its exact date of composition is uncertain, scholars often place it later in the playwright's career, possibly between 450 and 425 BCE. The play's title refers to the women of Trachis, the chorus who witness and reflect on the unfolding catastrophe.The ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Trachiniae is one of Sophocles' lesser-known plays, yet it remains a powerful exploration of fate, suffering, and human fallibility. Though its exact date of composition is uncertain, scholars often place it later in the playwright's career, possibly between 450 and 425 BCE. The play's title refers to the women of Trachis, the chorus who witness and reflect on the unfolding catastrophe.The
... Read more
The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

by Benjamin Franklin, Plato, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Anonymous, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of
... Read more
Antigone. Illustrated

by Sophocles ...

Translated by F. Storr ...

"Antigone" by Sophocles, in this illustrated edition, is a classic Greek tragedy that unfolds against the backdrop of Thebes. The play delves into the profound ethical and moral dilemmas faced by its characters, with Antigone at the center of a conflict between personal convictions and civic duty.The narrative begins with the aftermath of a brutal war, where two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Antigone" by Sophocles, in this illustrated edition, is a classic Greek tragedy that unfolds against the backdrop of Thebes. The play delves into the profound ethical and moral dilemmas faced by its characters, with Antigone at the center of a conflict between personal convictions and civic duty.The narrative begins with the aftermath of a brutal war, where two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices,
... Read more
οιδίπους επί κολωνώ

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Sophocles ...

Ο «Οιδίπους επί Κολωνώ» του Σοφοκλή, σε νεοελληνική μετάφραση του Ηλία Π. Βουτιερίδου, είναι ένα από τα πιο στοχαστικά ύστερα αριστουργήματα της αρχαίας τραγωδίας. Ο τυφλός, εξόριστος Οιδίποδας φτάνει με την Αντιγόνη σε ιερό τόπο της Αττικής, ακολουθώντας χρησμό που συνδέει τον θάνατό του με τις Ευμενίδες και τη μοίρα της Αθήνας. Η συνάντησή του με τον Χορό, τον Ξένο και αργότερα με τον Θησέα ... Read more

$1.99 USD

Ο «Οιδίπους επί Κολωνώ» του Σοφοκλή, σε νεοελληνική μετάφραση του Ηλία Π. Βουτιερίδου, είναι ένα από τα πιο στοχαστικά ύστερα αριστουργήματα της αρχαίας τραγωδίας. Ο τυφλός, εξόριστος Οιδίποδας φτάνει με την Αντιγόνη σε ιερό τόπο της Αττικής, ακολουθώντας χρησμό που συνδέει τον θάνατό του με τις Ευμενίδες και τη μοίρα της Αθήνας. Η συνάντησή του με τον Χορό, τον Ξένο και αργότερα με τον Θησέα
... Read more
The Philoctetes of Sophocles

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Sophocles ...

Thomas Sheridan's 1725 English translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes opens with guidance for readers and a vivid cast of mythic figures, then plunges into a tragedy of abandonment, honor, and political deceit. On the desolate shore of Lemnos, Ulysses and the young Neoptolemus seek the forsaken Philoctetes, whose festering wound and lonely cries have made him a living emblem of Greek cruelty. ... Read more

$1.99 USD

Thomas Sheridan's 1725 English translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes opens with guidance for readers and a vivid cast of mythic figures, then plunges into a tragedy of abandonment, honor, and political deceit. On the desolate shore of Lemnos, Ulysses and the young Neoptolemus seek the forsaken Philoctetes, whose festering wound and lonely cries have made him a living emblem of Greek cruelty.
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Modern Library Classics

The Oedipus Cycle

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedy in New Translations

Plays for Performance Series

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Enriched Classics

Antigone

Philoctetes

Oedipus at Colonus

Electra

Ajax

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus King of Thebes

The Trachiniae

The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

Antigone. Illustrated

οιδίπους επί κολωνώ

The Philoctetes of Sophocles

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Modern Library Classics

The Oedipus Cycle

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedy in New Translations

Plays for Performance Series

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Enriched Classics

Show: