Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE), 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" ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780674995581ISBN:0674995589
Description: New. Text in English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 608 p. Loeb Classical Library, 21. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780674995581ISBN:0674995589
Description: New. Text in English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 608 p. Loeb Classical Library, 21. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780674995581ISBN:0674995589
Description: New. 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 lea... read more
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