LEADER 02631nam 2200397 450 001 996201333103316 005 20231103220420.0 010 $a0-674-99557-0 035 $a(CKB)3820000000011936 035 $a(NjHacI)993820000000011936 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000011936 100 $a20231103d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSophocles $eAjax, Electra, Oedipus tyrannus /$fSophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones 210 1$aCambridge :$cHarvard University Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (483 pages) 225 1 $aLoeb classical library ;$v20, LCL20 330 $aSophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human norm-but who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end. Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragments-ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers-are collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays. 410 0$aLoeb classical library ;$v20, LCL20. 606 $aMythology, Greek$xDrama 606 $aTrojan War$xDrama 615 0$aMythology, Greek$xDrama. 615 0$aTrojan War$xDrama. 676 $a882.01 700 $aSophocles$0439098 702 $aLloyd-Jones$b Hugh 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996201333103316 996 $aSophocles$9278319 997 $aUNISA