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The Complete Plays of Sophocles
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Moses Hadas (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bantam Classic & Loveswept
Publication date
September 1, 1996
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reissue
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553213546
ISBN-10
0553213547
Dimensions
0.75 by 4.25 by 7 in.
Weight
0.30 lbs.
Original list price
$6.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Collects seven extant plays by the great ancient Greek playwright about mythological figures such as Oedipus, Antigone, Electra, and Ajax, in such works as Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Philoctetes, accompanied by an authoritative introduction, notes, and commentary. Reissue.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax
Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus
The 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 the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold’s phrase, “saw life steadily and saw it whole.”
This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles’ complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called “the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English.”*
*Moses Hadas
Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus
The 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 the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold’s phrase, “saw life steadily and saw it whole.”
This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles’ complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called “the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English.”*
*Moses Hadas
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Paperback
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Reissue edition from Bantam Classic & Loveswept (September 1, 1996)
9780553213546 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $6.99
About: Collects seven ancient Greek plays about mythological figures such as Oedipus, Antigone, Electra, and Ajax
About: Collects seven ancient Greek plays about mythological figures such as Oedipus, Antigone, Electra, and Ajax
Prebinding
from Turtleback Books (April 1, 1991); titled "Complete Plays of Sophocles"
9781417812288 | details & prices | List price $16.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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