Sophocles audiobooks
Oedipus The King
by SophoclesOedipus the King is the first play of the Oedipus Trilogy penned by Athenian tragedian Sophocles. Disowned as an infant by his parents Thebes King Laius and Queen Jocasta, Oedipus raised by King Polybus. Knowing his past and the prophecy stating he will kill his father, Oedipus leaves King Polybus falsely interpreting his as father. However the inc..
Oedipus at Colonus
by SophoclesOedipus at Colonus is the second play of Oedipus Trilogy penned by Athenian tragedian Sophocles. The play follows the preceding incidents after Oedipus blinding himself and eventually expelled by his sons Eteocles and Polynices. Along with his daughters Antigone and Ismene, Oedipus moves to holy-land. He curses his sons that they will kill each oth..
Antigone
by SophoclesAntigone is the third play of Oedipus Trilogy penned by Athenian tragedian Sophocles which follows the incidents after death of Oedipus and his sons. New Thebes ruler Creon decides to put bodies of Eteocles and Polynices to public shame. Brave Antigone breaks the orders of Creon and buries bodies and eventually imprisoned along-with her sister Isme..
Electra
by SophoclesElectra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance ..