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by: Sophocles
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 882.2
EAN: 9780226307862
ISBN: 0226307867
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: May 15, 1969
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Sales Rank: 88721
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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'These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.'—Robert Brustein, The New Republic
'This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.'—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
'The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.'—Times Education Supplement
'These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead.'—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
'The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional.'—Commonweal
'Grene is one of the great translators.'—Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
'Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet.'—Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review
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Rating: - Great!!! :)
When I entered college, I was surprised to hear that there were so few Greek tragedies extent in the world today. I was also surprised that Sophocles actually had more plays than the Oedipus cycle. After debating whether to buy this translation of the texts (I am trying to collect all the Greek tragedies in this series), I finally checked it out of the library. Personally, I think that these plays are better than Oedipus, possibly because I think that Oedipus is rather overdone by high schools ... Read More
Rating: - The four non-Theban plays of Sophocles.
"Ajax" is probably the earliest extant play of Sophocles. Sophocles is the earliest known playwright to use painted scenery. He also decreased the importance of the chorus, added a third actor, and abandoned the trilogy format (each play is complete by itself). Ajax is the classical Greek tragedy about the downfall of a man who is sinned against and has a tragic flaw; in this case, insolence and pride. Ajax becomes enraged when Achilles' armor is awarded to Odysseus instead of to him. Agamemnon ... Read More
Rating: - The four non-Theban plays of Sophocles.
"Ajax" is probably the earliest extant play of Sophocles. Sophocles is the earliest known playwright to use painted scenery. He also decreased the importance of the chorus, added a third actor, and abandoned the trilogy format (each play is complete by itself). Ajax is the classical Greek tragedy about the downfall of a man who is sinned against and has a tragic flaw; in this case, insolence and pride. Ajax becomes enraged when Achilles' armor is awarded to Odysseus instead of to him. Agamemnon ... Read More
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