Sophocles II - Ajax, the Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, the Trackers

Series edited by David Grene & Richmond Lattimore.

About the author

Mark Griffith is a professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Albany, CA. Trained at Cambridge, Griffith is an enormously accomplished expert on the Greek Tragedies. Glenn W. Most studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale and is currently professor of ancient Greek at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and a visiting member of the Committe on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He divides his time between Pisa, Florence, and Chicago. Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. David Grene (1913-2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought.

Summary

Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: David Grene, Mark Most Griffith, GRIFFITH MARK MOST GLENN W, Sophocles
• Assisted by: David Grene (Editor), Grene David (Editor), Mark Griffith (Editor), Griffith Mark (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor), Lattimore Richmond (Editor), Glenn W Most (Editor), Glenn W. Most (Editor), Most Glenn W. (Editor), David Grene (Translation), Mark Griffith (Translation), Richmond Lattimore (Translation), Glenn W Most (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2013
• EAN: 9780226311555
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31155-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Complete Greek Tragedies; The Complete Greek Tragedies; Complete Greek Tragedies (Chicago)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Plays, Playscripts, Ancient, classical and medieval texts