Fragments / / Sophocles

• Record Nr.: UNISA996214860103316
• Autore: Sophocles
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1994
• ISBN: 0-674-99532-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 434 pages)
• Disciplina: 882.0109
• Soggetti: Greek drama (Tragedy); Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), considered one of the world's greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers.