Sophocles: Slected Fragmentary Plays (1) - Couverture souple

Fitzpatrick, David; Talboy, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0856687669 ISBN 13 : 9780856687662

Editeur : Aris & Phillips Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from quotations, indirect references, and occasionally a papyrus. The selection includes four plays about the Trojan War and its aftermath, all concerned with Achilles or his son Neoptolemus (The Diners, Troilus, Polyxene, and Hermione), and two presenting episodes from Athenian legend (Tereus and Phaedra). The editors have taken a special interest in the history of the myths that Sophocles dramatised and the often startling modifications he made to them; several of the plays also throw important light on parallel dramas of Euripides such as Hippolytus, Andromache, and Hecuba. A second volume of Fragmentary Plays is now available. Greek text with facing-page translation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of a celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include 'Aeschylean Tragedy' (1996), an edition of 'Aeschylus Eumenides' (1989), 'Greek Drama and Dramatists' (2002) and 'Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays' Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aris & Phillips Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: grec ancien (jusqu'à 1453)
• ISBN 10: 0856687669
• ISBN 13: 9780856687662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 317
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• Personne responsable: non disponible