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<p><P>Sophocles (497/6–406 BCE), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play <i>The Searchers</i>. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of known plays.<P>Many of the Sophoclean fragments were preserved by quotation in other authors; others, some of considerable size, are known to us from papyri discovered during the past century. Among the lost plays of which we have large fragments, <i>The Searchers</i> shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo; <i>Inachus</i> portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and <i>Niobe</i> tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his sub
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- Author
- and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674995321
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Poetry
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Sophocles 1: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Complete Greek Tragedies) (1970)
- Sophocles' Antigone : with introduction, translation and essay (1998)
- The Complete Works of Sophocles (2013)
- Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (1974)
- Sophocles I : Oedipus the king, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (1991)
- R. C. Jebb - Sophocles. Plays. Antigone (Classic Commentaries on Greek and Latin Texts) (2004) (2004)
- Sophocles' Antigone : with introduction, translation and essay (2012)
- Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics) (2001)
- Sophocles: Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library) (2002)
- Sophocles (1954)
- Sophocles, 1 : Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Penn Greek Drama Series) (1998)
- Sophocles: Ajax (Classic Commentaries on Latin & Greek Texts) (Classic Commentaries on Latin & Greek Texts) (2004)
- Sophocles: Electra (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (1973)
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