{"product_id":"loeb-21","title":"Loeb: Sophocles II: Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus - Hugh Lloyd-Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e**Some visible wear and tear on removable dust cover - otherwise in like new condition.**\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674995574\"\u003eVolume I\u003c\/a\u003e contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero’s life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman’s conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles’s wife to regain her husband’s love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus’s intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles’s language and dramatic art. The major fragments—ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers—are collected in \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674995321\"\u003eVolume III\u003c\/a\u003e of this edition. In prefatory notes, Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"product-attribute-specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePages\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Pages\"\u003e608\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publication Date\"\u003e1994\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publisher\"\u003eHarvard University Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"ISBN\"\u003e9780674995581\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Binding\"\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Author\"\u003eHugh Lloyd-Jones \/ Sophocles\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diavazo Greek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40154994147517,"sku":"loeb 21","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/7574\/2397\/products\/loeb-sophocles-ii-antigone-the-women-of-trachis-philoctetes-oedipus-at-colonus-hugh-lloyd-jones-6658601.jpg?v=1765468216","url":"https:\/\/checkout.diavazo.co.uk\/products\/loeb-21","provider":"Diavazo Greek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}