Trachiniae (Perfect Library) - Softcover

Sophocles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1512164747 ISBN 13: 9781512164749

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

"Trachiniae" from Sophocles. Greek tragedians (497 BC - 406 BC).

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Review:

'The discussion of individual passages is often excellent ... Davies's impressive grasp of bibliography makes this book a valuable reference work. No reader of the Trachiniae ... will leave this work without gratitude for its broad reading and deep scholarship.'E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado, Boulder, American Journal of Philology 114 (1993)

'a thorough, rigorous piece of hard-headed philology ... To read even a few pages of Davies is an excellent sharpening of one's senses on the details of Sophocles' Greek ... Davies' thoroughness, incisiveness, and well-arranged learning make his commentary indispensable for serious research on the play and a real education in poetic Greek. And readers who follow another commentary should consult Davies now and then if they think they know it all.'Philip Holt, University of Wyoming, The Classical Outlook, Summer 1993

'Davies' documentary offers valuable scholarly resource to those working on the Trachiniae ... The commentary also offers many valuable observations on grammatical, stylistic, and rhetorical issues, with much useful citation of relevant bibliography.Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas, Classical World

Davies' commentary is an important work of scholarship, whose genesis in a series of Oxford textual criticism seminars has given iti its particular savour...There is an impressive display of scholarly acuity in this book...its tsrngth is the high degree of nuance it brings to the discussion of textual prblems (The Journal of Hellenic Studies 113)

Book Description:

This book is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. Making full use of recent Sphoclean scholarship, Mrs Easterling attempts in her Introduction a detailed literary analysis of Trachiniae, helping the reader to understand better its intricate structure, the treatment of Deianira and Heracles, and the meaning of the final scenes.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1512164747
• ISBN 13: 9781512164749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38
• Editor: The Perfect Library