Selected Poems : Odes and Fragments / Sophocles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sophocles, author.

Contributor:

Gibbons, Reginald.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Sophocles--Translations into English.

Sophocles.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 127 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English and Greek.

Summary:

Sophocles' tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm across Sophocles' writings, Reginald Gibbons has translated a selection of odes from Sophocles' surviving plays as well as fragments from his lost works. What emerges is a genuinely new sense of a Sophocles who was as much poet as dramatist. Bringing the Greek poet and his world surprisingly close to us, these translations also restore a sense of the long continuity of poetry. Complete with an introduction, this edition reveals Sophocles' poetic brilliance as never before.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

DESIRE

THE HUMAN LOT

THE ODES OF OIDIPOUS TYRANNOS

THE END OF THE FAMILY OF LABDAKOS

HOMELAND EARTH, SEA, AND SKY

THE FATE OF THE HERO

Notes

Index of First Lines

Notes:

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691190419

0691190410

OCLC:

1132227051