Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones

by Jasper Griffin

Overview

Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University from 1960 to 1989. He has made important contributions to our knowledge of ancient Greece. In September 1997 a group of former pupils and scholars offered him a set of papers on Sophocles in honor of is seventy-fifth birthday. This volume collects those papers, which give varied approaches to the poet, his work, and his influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198130062
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/02/2000
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

Balliol College, Oxford

Table of Contents

Plain Words in Sophocles, P. Easterling
Trachiniae: Three Parallels, R. Fowler
Sophocles and the Democratic City, J. Griffin
Sophocles' Electra in Britain, E. Hall
Philoctetes: A Problem Play?, M. Heath
Sophocles at Rome, L. Holford-Strevens
Sophocles and Time, G. Hutchinson
Sophocles and the Divine, R. Parker
German Translators of Sophocles, R. Stoneman
Ancestral Curses, M. West
The Antigone and Herodotus Book 3, S. West
Comic Patterns in Sophocles' Ichneutae, N. Zagagi