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por Sophocle; David Raeburn (Translator); Preface by David Raeburn

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, insparkling new translations

Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wroteover the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collectsfour of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a youngwoman for her father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by hermother's lover. Ajax depicts the enigma of power and weakness vis-àvisthe fall of the great hero. Women of Trachis dramatizes the tragiclove and error of Heracles's deserted wife, Deianeira; Philoctetesexamines the conflict between physical force and moral strength.

Resumo

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations

Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by her mother?s lover. Ajax depicts the enigma of power and weakness vis-àvis the fall of the great hero. Women of Trachis dramatizes the tragic love and error of Heracles?s deserted wife, Deianeira; Philoctetes examines the conflict between physical force and moral strength.

Informações do editor

Sophocles was born at Colonus, just outside Athens, in 496 BC, and lived ninety years. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatise On the Chorus. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.

Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, and the posthumous Oedipus at Colonus. A substantial part of The Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC.

David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford University. He has translated Sophocles and directed numerous school and university productions of Greek tragedies.


David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford University. He has translated Sophocles and directed numerous school and university productions of Greek tragedies.


David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford University. He has translated Sophocles and directed numerous school and university productions of Greek tragedies.

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  • Título Electra and Other Plays
  • Autor Sophocle; David Raeburn (Translator); Preface by David Raeburn
  • Encadernação Brochura
  • Edição [ Edition: First
  • Páginas 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Penguin Group
  • Data de publicação 2008-06-24
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780140449785 / 0140449787
  • Peso 0.61 libras (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensão 7.8 x 5.12 x 0.9 in. (19.81 x 13.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Época de 18 a UP anos
  • séries 13 - UP
  • Temas
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Greek, Greek drama (Tragedy)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 882.01

Sobre o autor

Sophocles was born at Colonus, just outside Athens, in 496 BC, and lived ninety years. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatise On the Chorus. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.

Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, and the posthumous Oedipus at Colonus. A substantial part of The Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC.


David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford University. He has translated Sophocles and directed numerous school and university productions of Greek tragedies.

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