“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
“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
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
Sophocles Volume II
Loeb Classical Library 21
Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus
Book Details
HARDCOVER
$24.00 • £15.95 • €19.50
ISBN 9780674995581
Publication: January 1994
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