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Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays: Volume I

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays: Volume I

with David Fitzpatrick (Translator), Thomas Talboy (Translator), Alan H. Sommerstein (Translator)

317 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art classics history literary play dark reflective slow-paced

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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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