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Sophocles (497/6 406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of
the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of
the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn
from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic
figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence
exceeds the human norm but who also has more than ordinary pride
and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic
end. Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation
of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus
(which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of
wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek
revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father).
Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen
hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an
individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal
attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and
Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the
Trojan War). Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from
these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic
art. The major fragments ranging in length from two lines to a very
substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers are collected
in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones
provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
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Fragments (Hardcover)
Sophocles; Edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
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R768
Discovery Miles 7 680
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Sophocles (497/6 406 BCE), the second of the three great tragedians
of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets,
wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete,
but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned
about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents a
collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two
lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The
Searchers. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of
known plays. Many of the Sophoclean fragments were preserved by
quotation in other authors; others, some of considerable size, are
known to us from papyri discovered during the past century. Among
the lost plays of which we have large fragments, The Searchers
shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing
trick on his brother Apollo; Inachus portrays Zeus coming to Argos
to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and Niobe tells how Apollo
and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother
by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the
extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic
legend.This is the final volume of Lloyd-Jones's new Loeb Classical
Library edition of Sophocles. In volumes I and II he gives a
faithful and very skilful translation of the seven surviving plays.
Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, and Electra. Volume II
contains Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, and
Philoctetes.
'The revolution that is going on in me is that which has taken
place in every artist who has studied Nature long and diligently
and now seeks the remains of the great spirit of antiquity; his
soul wells up, he feels a transfiguration of himself from within, a
feeling of freer life, higher existence, lightness and grace.' It
is Mr Trevelyan's purpose, in this profoundly interesting book, to
trace the course of this development in Goethe, to determine its
extent, to test its sincerity. To this task he brings, not only a
complete knowledge of Goethe's life and works and of classical
literature, but also a fine critical sense which enables him to
direct his detailed knowledge towards a philosophical conclusion.'
So wrote Herbert Read in The Spectator in December 1941 on the
first publication of Goethe and the Greeks. Trevalyan's account of
Goethe's fascination with the Greeks, his striving to master their
culture, his vision of Hellenic man, is judged not to have been
supplanted by any later work in English. Professor Lloyd-Jones has
written a substantial Foreword for this reissue of Trevelyan's
book, giving his own assessment of Goethe's search for Hellenism
and its influence on his work.
Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of
the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of
the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn
from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic
figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence
exceeds the human norm--but who also has more than ordinary pride
and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic
end.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of
the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains "Oedipus Tyrannus"
(which tells the famous Oedipus story), "Ajax" (a heroic tragedy of
wounded self-esteem), and "Electra" (the story of siblings who seek
revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father).
Volume II contains "Oedipus at Colonus" (the climax of the fallen
hero's life), "Antigone" (a conflict between public authority and
an individual woman's conscience), "The Women of Trachis" (a fatal
attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and
"Philoctetes" (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to
the Trojan War).
Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much
can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The
major fragments--ranging in length from two lines to a very
substantial portion of the satyr play "The Searchers"--are
collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes
Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known
plays.
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The Oresteia (Paperback)
Aeschylus; Translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
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R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only
surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. These three plays recount the
murder of Agamemnon by his queen Clytemnestra on his return from
Troy with the captive Trojan princess Cassandra; the murder in turn
of Clytemnestra by their son Orestes; and Orestes' subsequent
pursuit by the Avenging Furies (Eumenides) and eventual absolution.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones's informative notes elucidate the text, and
introductions to each play set the trilogy against the background
of Greek religion as a whole and Greek tragedy in particular,
providing a balanced assessment of Aeschylus's dramatic art. This
superior translation should be read by every student of Greek
civilization, classical literature, and drama.
Another adventure for the intrepid time traveller. While visiting a
Galactic Tollport, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Mel (Bonnie
Langford) win a trip to Disneyland in 1959. On board the spacebus
they meet Chimeron queen Delta, whose people have been wiped out by
mercenary Gavrok (Don Henderson) and his men. Knocked off course by
a satellite, the bus in fact delivers its passengers to the
Shangri-La holiday camp in Fifties Wales, but while the Doctor
becomes determined to make the most of the break - and Delta
embarks on a romance with Earth mechanic Billy - Gavrok is not far
behind. Watch out for a guest appearance by Ken Dodd as the
Tollmaster.
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones has a worldwide reputation as one of the
foremost classical scholars of his generation. This collection of
papers, which follows on from the two volumes published in 1990,
reflects his exceptionally wide interests in the fields of Greek
epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, Hellenistic literature, religion, and
intellectual history.
The Supplement to the Supplementum Hellenisticum, edited by Hugh
Lloyd-Jones and Peter Parsons in 1983, presents new papyrus
material, along with a succession of new suggestions regarding the
texts and their meanings. It also provides references and brief
analyses of the scholarly discussions that concern them. As in the
original volume, all information is arranged alphabetically by
author name and includes readings of the texts, addenda from new
papyri, and references to recent scholarship. Indices of the Greek
word forms of all newly added texts and of the sources follow the
format of the original volume's indices. On the occasion of the
publication of Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici (SSH),
Supplementum Hellenisticum (SH) is being offered at a lower price.
Both volumes are available as a set for EURO 198.00.
First published in 1952, this study discusses the development of
Greek prose during the fifth century and analyzes its use of
abstract forms of expression, word-order, sentence structure, use
of repetition, asyndeton and assonance.
T. C. W. Stinton was a highly respected classical scholar who died
in 1985. He was a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, for over thirty
years and devoted his life to teaching, inspiring his pupils with
his own passionate love for the classics. As well as generously
encouraging the work and publications of others, he also spent much
time himself in researching and writing, concentrating mainly on
Greek tragedy. This volume presents twenty-six of Tom Stinton's
essays and reviews, mainly on Greek tragedy, covering his work from
1960 until his death in 1985. The papers include `Euripides and the
Judgement of Paris', `The Scope and Limits of Allusion in Greek
Tragedy', `The Apotheosis of Heracles from the Pyre', and `Greek
Tragic Texts and the Limits of Conservatism'. Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones,
formerly Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, has
written a foreword especially for this collection.
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