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Book SynopsisSophocles (497/6–406 BC), considered one of the world’s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including
Oedipus Tyrannus,
Ajax,
Antigone, and
Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr play
The Searchers.
Trade ReviewSir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering
Eugene Onegin, called a metaphrase—a scrupulous, bare explanation of the original… Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of Sophocles… Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb version only confirms his impenetrable greatness. -- Donald Lyons * New Criterion *
Hugh Lloyd-Jones was a very natural choice of editor… He gives a 22-page introduction on Sophocles’ life, together with a very brief consideration of the seven plays and a short guide to further reading. * Greece and Rome *
