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

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Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford, Hugh Lloyd-Jones was knighted in 1989.

Read More by Sophocles:

• Sophocles, I, Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
• Sophocles, III, Fragments

Read More by Hugh Lloyd-Jones:

• Sophocles, I, Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
• Sophocles, III, Fragments