Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • AjaxTrachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only t...more

In this beautifully illustrated book-the first in almost a century devoted solely to Roman sculpture-Diana E. E. Kleiner discusses all the major public and private monuments in Rome, as well as many less well-known monuments in the capital and elsewhere in the empire. Throughout, Kleiner treats Roman sculpture in its cultural, political, and social...more