Sophocles II: Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes by Sophocles

Sophocles II: Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes

Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)

Sophocles with David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, John Moore, Michael Jameson

254 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics literary play dark reflective fast-paced

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go be...

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