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Three dramas of old age

SophoclesEwans, Michael(Translated by)Ley, Graham(Translated by)McCart, Gregory(Translated by)etc.(Volume editor)Ewans, Michael(Volume editor)
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Sophocles created these three tragedies in his 80s, when Athenian democracy was heading towards final defeat in the Peloponnesian War.

The volume also includes his unfinished satyr-drama "Trackers".

This study edition contains both the texts and notes upon them.

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Product Details
0460877429 / 9780460877428
Paperback
882.01
14/12/2000
United Kingdom
English
400p.
20 cm
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Contents: Elektra - Philoktetes - Oidipous at Kolonos - Trackers.
New translations by a group of the most eminent scholars in their field The most comprehensive paperback available, with text summary, glossaries and chronology of Sophocles's life and times, and extensive notes on the text and on the staging of the dramas Text has been re-set in B format with wide margins to give room for notes An important addition to the Everyman Classics series
New translations by a group of the most eminent scholars in their field The most comprehensive paperback available, with text summary, glossaries and chronology of Sophocles's life and times, and extensive notes on the text and on the staging of the dramas Text has been re-set in B format with wide margins to give room for notes An important addition to the Everyman Classics series 2AHA Ancient (Classical) Greek, DD Plays, playscripts, DNF Literary essays, DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, DSG Literary studies: plays & playwrights