Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays Volume I |
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| Translated with commentary by:
| Fitzpatrick, David
Talboy, Thomas
Sommerstein, Alan H. |
| Series title: | Aris and Phillips Classical Texts |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85668-766-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from quotations, indirect references, and occasionally a papyrus.
The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from quotations, indirect references, and occasionally a papyrus.