Description
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.
This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles’ complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation.
Info
ISBN: 9780553213546
Published Date: April 1, 1991
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Language: English
Page Count: 304
Size: 6.72" l x 4.14" w x 1.05" h