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Cover: Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus, from Harvard University PressCover: Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus in HARDCOVER

Sophocles Volume II
Loeb Classical Library 21

Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

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HARDCOVER

$24.00 • £15.95 • €19.50

ISBN 9780674995581

Publication: January 1994

Loeb

608 pages

4-1/4 x 6-3/8 inches

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Lloyd-Jones’ prose is, then, just right for today’s taste, which is intolerant of another’s poetic sensibility interposed between itself and Sophocles.—Donald Lyons, New Criterion

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