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Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles
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- Product Group
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780674995574
- Book Title
- Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
- Item Length
- 6.4in
- Original Language
- Greek, Classical
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Drama, Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Topic
- European / General, Ancient & Classical
- Item Width
- 4.2in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian. Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human norm--but who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end. Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus' intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragments--ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers --are collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674995570
ISBN-13
9780674995574
eBay Product ID (ePID)
720842
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
Original Language
Greek, Classical
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
European / General, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Drama, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
4.2in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
20
Lc Classification Number
Pa4414.A1l56 1994
Volume Number
1
Edition Description
Revised Edition
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Hugh Lloyd-Jones was a very natural choice of editor...He gives a 22-page introduction on Sophocles' life, together with a very brief consideration of the seven plays and a short guide to further reading., Sir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering Eugene Onegin, called a metaphrase--a scrupulous, bare explanation of the original...Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of Sophocles...Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb version only confirms his impenetrable greatness., Sir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering Eugene Onegin , called a metaphrase--a scrupulous, bare explanation of the original...Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of Sophocles...Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb version only confirms his impenetrable greatness.
Copyright Date
1994
Lccn
92-019295
Dewey Decimal
882.01
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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