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Sophocles

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Griffin, Jasper, Ed. Sophocles Revisited: essays presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd- Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hogan, James C. A Commentary on the Plays of Sophocles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.

Nardo, Don, Ed. Readings on Sophocles. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1997.

Powell, Barry. Classical Myth. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001.

Ringer, Mark. Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheatre and Role Playing in Sophocles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Segal, Charles. Tragedy and Civilization: an Interpretation of Sophocles. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

Sophocles. Electra. Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, General Editors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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