Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles (English) Paperback Book

Description: Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles, Paul Roche, Matthew S. Santirocco Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Includes the full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles, with Roches revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle and all-new translations of the remaining plays. Revised reissue. Publisher Description With new translations and a new afterwordThe full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roches revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of the remaining plays. Author Biography Sophocles was born at Colonus, just outside Athens, in 496 BC, and lived ninety years. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatise On the Chorus. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, and the posthumous Oedipus at Colonus. A substantial part of The Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC.Paul Roche, a distinguished English poet and translator, is the author of The Bibles Greatest Stories. His other translations include Euripides- Ten Plays (Signet), Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Meridian) and The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus (Meridian). Details ISBN 0451531531 ISBN-13 9780451531537 Title Sophocles: The Complete Plays Author Sophocles, Paul Roche, Matthew S. Santirocco Format Paperback Year 2010 Pages 464 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc GE_Item_ID:137909588; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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