books about: sophocles     books:       Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)103 reviews Sophocles Dover Publications, 1991 Has lasted 1000s of years for a reason... This was a great book. I never liked reading plays before I read Oedipus Rex. It's a really interesting plot with a really cool (disgusting) ending. Read this book. You won't regret it.             Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)5 reviews Sophocles Signet Classics, 2001 Agony, despair, suffering, misery...It's all good. If tragedy is, as Aristotle described, the imitation (that is, representation) of great people whose downfall induces a sense of pity and fear in the audience, Sophocles's plays are exemplary illustrations of the genre. The Sophoclean hero suffers, agonizes, despairs because of cruel fate or, more likely, some mistake he or she has made as a result of a character flaw such as pride or anger. ...             The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)15 reviews Sophocles Penguin Classics, 2000 Translations Researching translations is never an easy task, and in this case, where you'll have to search on Amazon for the title and the translator to find what you want, it's particularly difficult. Here's what I've found by comparing several editions: 1. David Grene translation: Seems to be accurate, yet not unwieldy as such. My pick. Language is used precisely, but not to the point where it's ...             Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone15 reviews Sophocles Harvest Books, 2002 A powerful and moving piece! ~I had to read OEDIPUS REX for my pre-IB sophomore English class, feeling not too happy with another dull, lengthy Greek play (we had to read THE ODYSSEY last year, and it got really redundant). But Sophocles' play...wow, it's totally different! The characters are so much more real and the speeches are deep and engrossing. Thebes is fascinating, substantial - and the issues grip you ...             Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics Series)18 reviews Sophocles Pocket, 2005 Naxos recording perhaps a bit too modern The only budget series of audio books and recorded drama comes from Naxos. One of their more recent entries is a very modern version of Sophocles' in a translation by Duncan Steen. In fact, some might find it a little too modern with its use of idiomatic expressions such as "You can't pin that on me"--which might be taken as an ironic reference to the final horrible deed of the hero. But when ...             The Complete Plays of Sophocles2 reviews Sophocles Bantam Classics, 1982 What Bad Thing Could One Say About The Greatest Tragedian? This is a most accessible tome of the seven extant plays of the Sophocles . The editor's comments also illumine the reader. If you've never read Sophocles, this inexpensive paperback is all you need to enter the realm of ancient Greece.             Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra & Philoctetes (The Complete Greek Tragedies)3 reviews Sophocles University Of Chicago Press, 1969 The four non-Theban plays of Sophocles. "Ajax" is probably the earliest extant play of Sophocles. Sophocles is the earliest known playwright to use painted scenery. He also decreased the importance of the chorus, added a third actor, and abandoned the trilogy format (each play is complete by itself). Ajax is the classical Greek tragedy about the downfall of a man who is sinned against and has a tragic flaw; in this case, insolence ...             Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies)12 reviews Sophocles University Of Chicago Press, 1991 Translations Researching translations is never an easy task, and in this case, where you'll have to search on Amazon for the title and the translator to find what you want, it's particularly difficult. Here's what I've found by comparing several editions: 1. David Grene translation: Seems to be accurate, yet not unwieldy as such. My pick. Language is used precisely, but not to the point where it's ...             Antigone1 review Sophocles Prestwick House, Inc., 2005 Essential reading for a classical education I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...             The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone15 reviews Sophocles Plume, 1996 Essential reading for a classical education I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...             Sophocles, Volume II. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus (Loeb Classical Library ...5 reviews Sophocles Loeb Classical Library, 1994 Worth the investment. If you haven't read anything by Sophocles and want to read him for fun, I'd suggest getting the Fagles translations of the Theban plays, followed by the Sophocles II volume published by University of Chicago. That will get you every complete play we have by him and is a good way to start. However, if you've read one (or even all) of the plays in this volume, know some Greek, and want to go a ...             Three Dramas of Old Age: Elektra, Philoktetes, Oidipous at Kolonos, Trackers Sophocles Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., 2001 Sophocles created these three tragedies while he was in his eighties, as the faction-ridden Athenian democracy headed toward final defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The volume also includes surviving part of Sophocles' satire-drama Trackers, as well as other selected fragments.             Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) Sophocles Cambridge University Press, 2006 'Sophocles ... created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama ...' With these words Dr Dawe sets out the importance of Oedipus Rex. He investigates why it has for so long fascinated the human mind, devoting his introduction to an examination of the story and to the technique employed by Sophocles to unfold the plot. In this revised edition he also argues for the spurious ...             Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100 Part One2 reviews E. A. Sophocles Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004 Great Lexicon in a Poor Printing This is a very good lexicon of Greek as it was written in medium and high registers from about the second century through the fourteenth century of our era. As a Byzantinist, I find that this lexicon picks up what is lacking in the Liddell-Scott-Jones. It includes terms from daily life, like a word for swamp derived from Slavonic, or bureaucratic terminology derived from Latin. The references to ...             Ajax3 reviews Sophocles BiblioBazaar, 2008 Sophocles makes his case for the burial of the hero Ajax I have always thought of the character of Ajax from the Trojan War to be the prototype of the "dumb jock" stereotype. Next to Achilles he was the best of the Achean warriors, but Ajax was deeply flawed in that he was stubborn and egotistical. I think his intelligence is further called into question by the myth regarding his death, which is the subject of this play by Sophocles. After the death of ...             Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes Sophocles Hackett Pub Co, 2007 Meineck 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. Woodruff's Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the ...             The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library (Cloth))6 reviews Sophocles Everyman's Library, 1994 The pinnacle of Greek tragedy... These three plays stand as the best of the Greek tragedies, superior to the works of Sophocles' rivals Euripides and Aeschylus, mainly because these plays hold more depth and allow for more cultural analysis. They may seem long-winded at times, even repetitive, but I assure potential readers that there is a point to the speeches, and that many 'extraneous' phrases divulge the author's meaning or ...             Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition3 reviews Sophocles Prestwick House, Inc., 2005 A student friendly edition of the paradigmatic Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" is not only the most read Greek tragedy, it is also the most misread. The play's reputation exists in part because it is presented as the paradigmatic example of the Greek tragedy by no less an authority than Aristotle in his "Poetics." No doubt this reputation played a part it making it one of the relatively few plays by Sophocles that has been preserved from ancient times. ...              search for books antigone, byzantine, cambridge, classical, classics, colonus, complete, edition, editions, electra, elektra, enriched, everyman, kolonos, lexicon, library, literary, oedipus, oidipous, penguin, periods, philoctetes, philoktetes, signet, sophocles, theban, touchstone, trachis, trackers, tragedies books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Illumina: Choral Music by Rautavaara, Rachmaninov, Byrd, Hildegard, ... Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox