Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 32.9 (Codex Laurentianus), fol. 1r — opening of Sophocles' Ajax in Byzantine minuscule, 10th–11th century

Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Reading companion and full text of Sophocles, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library 20), translated by F. Storr — the three Theban plays in the order they appear in the manuscript tradition: Oedipus the King, the founding masterpiece of tragic recognition; Oedipus at Colonus, the poet's final work, produced posthumously; and Antigone, the first of the three to be composed and the one in which the conflict between divine and human law receives its definitive dramatic statement.