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by Sophocles (Author), R. C. Jebb (Translator)
This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, now reprinted in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with the editor and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.
This is an fine example of one of R.C. Jebb's respected editions of Sophocles' plays, originally appearing in the last years of the 19th century. He gives literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text.Author Biography
Sir Richard Clavarhouse Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' had a profound influence on subsequent scholarship.
P.E. Easterling is Fellow of Newnham College, and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, UK. She is general editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics in the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and translator of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone and King Oedipus.
