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Dolos and Dike in Sophokles' Elektraby L. MacLeod
BRILL 2001; US$ 156.00This volume addresses the ethical issues of "Elektra" through an analysis of the language and argumentation which the characters use to explain and justify their behaviour. The work contains a critique of interpretative approaches to the play, a bibliography, and an index of passages cited. more...
The Complete Plays of Sophoclesby Sophocles
Bantam Books 2006; US$ 6.99Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold’s phrase, “saw life steadily and saw it whole.” This one-volume... more...
Electraby A. E. Sophocles; Anne Carson; Michael Shaw
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 22.00Sophocles' "Electra" tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for he murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. This edition of the play is preceded by a critical introduction and is accompanied by explanatory notes. more...
Antigoneby Sophocles
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 11.95Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek. more...
Philoctetesby Sophocles
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 11.00Centering on the Greek army's attempt to win the trust of their master bowman Philoctetes, without whom they cannot win the Trojan War, Philoctetes is a morally complex and timelessly relevant meditation on ends and means, on patriotism, and on the relationship between public duty and private interest. more...
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonusby Sophocles
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 14.95The latest title to join the acclaimed "Greek Tragedy in New Translations" series, "Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus"" tells the story of the last day in the life of Oedipus. It was written at the end of the fifth century BCE in Athens, in the final years of the "Golden Age" of Athenian culture, and in the last year of Sophocles' own life. At the center of the play is the mysterious transformation of Oedipus from an old and blind beggar, totally dependent on his daughters, to the man who rises from his seat and, without help, leads everyone to the place where he is destined to die. In the background of this transformation stands the grove of the Furies, the sacred place of the implacable goddesses who pursue the violators of blood relationships.... more...
Four Tragediesby Sophocles; Peter Meineck; Paul Woodruff
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 9.95Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. more...
Scholia vetera in Sophoclis "Electram"by Georgios A. Xenis
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 154.00Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles' Electra for over two millennia. The beginnings of this long tradition of the play's interpretation lie in Hellenistic Alexandria and are now being represented by a series of notes which have survived in the margins of medieval manuscripts. The book offers an English introduction and an authoritative new critical text of these notes based on a thorough review of the manuscript evidence and the best modern scholarship. The critical text is accompanied by an apparatus criticus and is placed in its scholarly context by means of a rich collection of parallel passages. more...
Sophocles: An Interpretationby R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 40.00Professor Winnington-Ingram interprets seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and explores his tragic vision of the world. more...
Helping Friends and Harming Enemiesby Mary Whitlock Blundell
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 38.00This book is a detailed study of five plays of Sophocles that examines a key ethical principle. more...