Sophocles II Sophocles II
The Complete Greek Tragedies

Sophocles II

Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

Sophocles and Others
    • 4.0 • 1 Rating
    • $14.99
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

Sophocles II contains the plays “Ajax,” translated by John Moore; “The Women of Trachis,” translated by Michael Jameson; “Electra,” translated by David Grene; “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; and “The Trackers,” translated by Mark Griffith.

Many years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. The updated third editions of these classic works were designed to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century.

 

In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays.

In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2013
April 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
2
MB
Greek Tragedies I Greek Tragedies I
2013
The Greek Plays The Greek Plays
2016
Greek Drama Greek Drama
1983
All That You've Seen Here Is God All That You've Seen Here Is God
2015
Electra and Other Plays Electra and Other Plays
2008
Euripides Euripides
1998
Oedipus Trilogy Oedipus Trilogy
2014
The Three Theban Plays The Three Theban Plays
1984
Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex
2012
Antigone Antigone
2012
The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes
2019
Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex
2012
Sophocles I: The Theban Plays Sophocles I: The Theban Plays
2013
Euripides I Euripides I
2013
Euripides V Euripides V
2013
Euripides III Euripides III
2013
Euripides II Euripides II
2013
Euripides IV Euripides IV
2013