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Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies
published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas
Talboy now present seven more. Three of these dramatise successive
phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous Odysseus
brought about the judicial murder of the culture-hero Palamedes and
of the terrible revenge taken by Palamedes' father Nauplius. The
volume also includes dramas about the first day's fighting of the
Trojan War ( The Shepherds ), about the foundation of the
mystery-cult of Eleusis and the birth of agriculture ( Triptolemus
, one of Sophocles' earliest plays), about a young woman who
contrived the death of her father in order to save her beloved (
Oenomaus ) and about a young man who killed his mother in obedience
to the last injunctions of his father ( The Epigoni or Eriphyle ).
The volume includes the text and translation of all the surviving
fragments (and of a selection of other texts that give us
information about these plays), with full commentary and an
introduction to each play discussing, among other things, the
development of the myth and the likely content of the play so far
as it can be reconstructed. The plays included are The Epigoni ,
Oenomaus , Palamedes , The Arrival of Nauplius , Nauplius and the
Beacon , The Shepherds and Triptolemus . Greek text with
facing-page translation.
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 from quotations, indirect
references, and occasionally a papyrus. The selection includes four
plays about the Trojan War and its aftermath, all concerned with
Achilles or his son Neoptolemus (The Diners, Troilus, Polyxene, and
Hermione), and two presenting episodes from Athenian legend (Tereus
and Phaedra). The editors have taken a special interest in the
history of the myths that Sophocles dramatised and the often
startling modifications he made to them; several of the plays also
throw important light on parallel dramas of Euripides such as
Hippolytus, Andromache, and Hecuba. A second volume of Fragmentary
Plays is now available. Greek text with facing-page translation.
Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies
published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas
Talboy now present seven more. Three of these dramatise successive
phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous Odysseus
brought about the judicial murder of the culture-hero Palamedes and
of the terrible revenge taken by Palamedes' father Nauplius. The
volume also includes dramas about the first day's fighting of the
Trojan War ( The Shepherds ), about the foundation of the
mystery-cult of Eleusis and the birth of agriculture ( Triptolemus
, one of Sophocles' earliest plays), about a young woman who
contrived the death of her father in order to save her beloved (
Oenomaus ) and about a young man who killed his mother in obedience
to the last injunctions of his father ( The Epigoni or Eriphyle ).
The volume includes the text and translation of all the surviving
fragments (and of a selection of other texts that give us
information about these plays), with full commentary and an
introduction to each play discussing, among other things, the
development of the myth and the likely content of the play so far
as it can be reconstructed. The plays included are The Epigoni ,
Oenomaus , Palamedes , The Arrival of Nauplius , Nauplius and the
Beacon , The Shepherds and Triptolemus . Greek text with
facing-page translation.
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