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The Complete Sophocles, Volume II: Electra and Other Plays
Sophocles, PaperbackOriginal price was: $13.99.$11.89Current price is: $11.89.
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order
to evoke the poetry of the originals.
account of the heroic suicide of the Trojan war hero better known as Ajax; Philoctetes, translated by Carl Phillips and Diskin Clay, a morally complex and penetrating play about the conflict between personal integrity and public duty; and The Women of Trachis, translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory
W. Dickerson, an urgent tale of mutability in a universe of precipitous change. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line
numbers.
Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sophocles
Published: 11/01/2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195373301
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
Additional information
Weight | 1.15 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.5 × 5.5 × 1.1 in |
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