Sophocles’ Jebb
Sophocles’ Jebb

Author: Chris Stray

Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society

Published: 2020-05-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1913701018

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Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP for the University from 1891 until his death, Jebb became a national spokesman for the humanities. “Sophocles’ Jebb” charts his career through 275 newly discovered letters, presented here with introductions and full annotation. By allowing Jebb and his contemporaries to speak in their own words, it enables a significant reassessment of a key cultural figure of late Victorian Britain and sheds fresh light on public and academic debate of the time. The volume ends with a new, comprehensive list of Jebb’s publications.

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

Author: Simon Goldhill

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0199796270

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This title presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles' tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past. The book explores Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist while investigating how the 19th-century critics developed a specific understanding of tragedy.

The Complete Plays of Sophocles
The Complete Plays of Sophocles

Author: Sophocles

Publisher: Bantam Classics

Published: 2006-03-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0553902431

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Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold’s phrase, “saw life steadily and saw it whole.” This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles’ complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called “the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English.”* *Moses Hadas

Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King

Author: Sophocles

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781297635458

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Introducing A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Introducing A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

Author: D. Antoine Sutton

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-04-18

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1527509478

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This volume is pivotal reading for laypersons looking for an accurate understanding of the private life and public career of A.E. Housman. Furthermore, it is also essential for any reader seeking to recover a truer image of the Victorian man who, during his lifetime, issued two collections of Romantic poems, A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. It will be of particular interest to history buffs, poets, professors and students of classical studies, and instructors in literary criticism, given that it sketches Housman’s biography and examines in detail his scholarship.

The Fragments of Sophocles
The Fragments of Sophocles

Author: Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1108009867

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The first volume of Jebb's edition of the fragments of Sophocles, completed after his death by Headlam and Pearson and published in 1917, contains a general introduction and the text of the fragments from 'Athamas' to 'Ichneutae', presented in Greek alphabetical order, together with a commentary.