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Informationen zum Autor Richard Clavarhouse Jebb , Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the 19th century. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship. P.E. Easterling , editor of this series and author of the new Foreword to each volume, is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, UK. She is general editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. Peter Wilson is University Lecturer at Oxford and Classics Tutor at New College, Oxford. He is the author of The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage (2000). Vorwort This is one of seven Jebb translations of Sophocles now in affordable paperback, including an expert introduction and a select bibliography Zusammenfassung Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905), Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles’ plays appeared between 1883 and 1896. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb’s literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship.All seven plays of Sophocles in their full editions by Jebb are being reissued in this series. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this new edition, each volume contains, in addition to Jebb’s text, a General Introduction by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship, and an Introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb’s treatment of the individual play and its value for – and contrast with – subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction, P.E. EasterlingAjax: Introduction, Peter WilsonR.C. Jebb: Prefaratory NoteINTRODUCTION § I. The Ajax of the Iliad. § 2. Cyclic epics. TheAethiopis. § 3• The Little Ilz'ad. § 4• Ajax and theAeacidae. Legend that Ajax was invulnerable. § 5• TheAjax-trilogy of Aeschylus. (i) q01r.\.wv Kpluts. § 6. (ii)®pvuuat. § 7. (iii) "i,aA.aplvtat.§ 8. The Afax of Sophocles. Analysis. § 9• Dramaticunity of the play. § Io. The veto on the burial. § u.The issue thus raised. § I 2. The successive moods ofAjax. His speech in verses 646-692. § I3. His imprecationupon the Greeks. § 14• The divine judgment.Athena. § IS• Odysseus. § I6. Teucer. His sceneswith the Atreidae. Modern criticism on this part of theplay. § I7• Tecmessa. The Chorus.§ I8. The Teucer of Sophocles. His Eurysaces. § I9.The story of Ajax in later literature. § 20. Illustrationsfrom ancient Art.§ 2I. Evidence for the date of the play. § 22. Thetitle.MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, ETC. .§§ r, 2. MSS. § 3• Scholia. § 4• The state of thetext. Lacunae. Proposed transpositions. Interpolations.§ S• Editions.METRICAL ANALYSIS . ANCIENT ARGUMENT TO THE PLAY; DRAMATIS PERSONAE;STRUCTURE TEXT APPENDIXINDICES...
