Sophocles: Trachiniae / Edition 1

Sophocles: Trachiniae / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0521287766
ISBN-13:
9780521287760
Pub. Date:
10/28/1982
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521287766
ISBN-13:
9780521287760
Pub. Date:
10/28/1982
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Sophocles: Trachiniae / Edition 1

Sophocles: Trachiniae / Edition 1

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Overview

Sophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience. Making full use of recent Sphoclean scholarship, Mrs Easterling attempts in her Introduction a detailed literary analysis of Trachiniae, helping the reader to understand better its intricate structure, the treatment of Deianira and Heracles, and the meaning of the final scenes. The notes in the Commentary of grammar, syntax and style include material which will be helpful to comparative beginners in the language, but the commentary as a whole is intended for anyone with a close interest in Greek tragedy. This is an edition for classical scholars, undergraduates, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction is designed to be of use to readers who do not know Greek, as well as to specialists.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521287760
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/1982
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Edition description: Greek Language Edition
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.71(d)
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

Richard Clavarhouse Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the 19th century. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship. P.E. Easterling, editor of this series and author of the new Foreword to each volume, is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College. She is general editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. Barbara Goward, who provides the new Introduction to this volume, teaches Greek and Latin at the City Literary Institute, London. Her publications include 'Island Transformations: metabole and metagnoia in Shakespeare's Tempest and Sophocles' Philoctetes' in Homer, Tragedy and Beyond (London 2002) and Telling Tragedy (Duckworth 1999; ppr ed. 2002).

Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The play; 2. Stage action; 3. The myth; 4. The date; Trachiniae; Commentary; Appendices; Glossary of metrical terms; Indexes; Map of Trachis and the Malian Gulf.
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