“Sir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering Eugene Onegin, called a metaphrase—a scrupulous, bare explanation of the original… Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of Sophocles… Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb version only confirms his impenetrable greatness.”—Donald Lyons, New Criterion
“Hugh Lloyd-Jones was a very natural choice of editor… He gives a 22-page introduction on Sophocles’ life, together with a very brief consideration of the seven plays and a short guide to further reading.”—Greece and Rome
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
Sophocles Volume I
Loeb Classical Library 20
Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
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$24.00 • £15.95 • €19.50
ISBN 9780674995574
Publication: January 1994
