Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays: Volume I by Alan H. Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick, Thomas Talboy

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays: Volume I

Alan H. Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick, Thomas Talboy

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The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only fro...

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