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Monday, November 03, 2025

Electra by Sophocles--the version I read in print is another translation from the Greek by another scholar.

https://files.core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41374964.pdf

I found these 3 plays by Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus and Electra exquisite and hard to put down.

I don't really like to read pdf versions on my laptop since I have to sit up and I can't mark the pages.

kmk

11-3-2025

KyiMayKaung

Monday, November 03, 2025

Electra by Sophocles--the version I read in print is another translation from the Greek by another scholar.

This is a nicer story than the usual--fisherwoman and emperor-

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