Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments

With Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose

Richard Claverhouse Jebb editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Feb '10

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This volume of Sir Richard Jebb's famous edition (1883–1896) of the works of Sophocles contains Philoctetes.

Sir Richard Jebb's seven-volume edition of the works of Sophocles, published between 1883 and 1896, remains a landmark in Greek scholarship. The text itself is given with an introduction, a parallel English translation, collation and explanatory notes. This volume contains Philoctetes.Sir Richard Jebb's seven-volume edition of the works of Sophocles, published between 1883 and 1896, remains a landmark in Greek scholarship. Jebb (1841–1905) was the most distinguished classicist of his generation, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University Orator, subsequently Professor of Greek at Glasgow University and finally Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and a Member of Parliament for the University. Each volume of the edition contains an introductory essay, a metrical analysis, an indication of the sources used to establish the text, and the ancient summaries ('arguments') of the play. The text itself is given with a parallel English translation, textual collation and explanatory notes, and an appendix consisting of expanded notes on some of the textual issues. The quality of Jebb's work means that his editions are still widely consulted today. This volume contains Philoctetes.

ISBN: 9781108008419

Dimensions: 216mm x 19mm x 140mm

Weight: 430g

340 pages