Sophocles: Trachiniae

by Sophocles, Sir Richard C. Jebb (Translator)

Overview

This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853996429
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/26/2004
Series:	Classic Commentaries
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

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 General Introduction Trachiniae: Introduction Introduction
1. Divergent views of Trachiniae. Difficulty of judging it rightly.
2. The Heracles Myth.—Argive legends. Boeotian legends. Thessalian legends.
3. Heracles in the Homeric poems.
4. The Heracleia of Peisander. The Heracleia of Panyasis. The Capture of Oechalia.
5. Lyric poems on Heracles. Archilochus. Stesichorus. Pindar. Deianeira associated with Heracles.
6. Heracles in drama. Comedy. Satyr-drama.
7. Tragedy. The Mad Heracles of Euripides.
8. The Trachiniae of Sophocles. The two mythic elements. Later digests of the Heracles legends. Freedom of the fifth century poets. Sequence of events in the Trachiniae.
9. The antecedents of the plot.
10. Analysis of the play.
11. The characters.—Deianeira.
12. Heracles
13. Hyllus.
14. The minor persons. The Chorus.
15. The incident of the robe. Comparison with the Medea. Supposed solar imagery.
16. The oracles
17. Dramatic structure. Unity of time neglected.
18. Seneca’s Heracles Oetaeus. The Latin Deianeira.
19. The fable in art.
20. Diction. Successive phases in the style of Sophocles..
21. Distinctive traits of the Trachiniae.
22. Supposed influence of Euripides.
Manuscripts, Editions, etc.
1, 2. The Laurentian and other Mss.
3. Scholia.
4. Interpolstion.
5. The theory of two recensions.
6. Emendations.
7. Editions, etc.
Metrical Analysis Dramatis Personae; Structure Text Appendix Indices

Editorial Reviews

'Mrs Easterling has written a work which is marked by tact, clarity and balanced judgement. It is an edition which could be profitably consulted at different levels, but it should be particularly helpful to students.' The Joint Association of Classical Teachers Bulletin

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