Fragments

ISBN-13: 9780674995321 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 448 str.

Sophocles

Opis

Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), the second of the great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents, in Greek and facing English translation, a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the play The Searchers. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of the known plays.