{"product_id":"fragments-by-sophocles-9780674995321","title":"Fragments","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophocles (497\/6–406 BCE), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens, is by common consent one of the world's greatest poets. He wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven of these survive complete. However, we have a wealth of fragments from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play \u003cem\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/em\u003e. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of known plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMany 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/em\u003e shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo. \u003cem\u003eInachus\u003c\/em\u003e portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king. \u003cem\u003eNiobe\u003c\/em\u003e tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic legend. This is the final volume of Lloyd-Jones's new Loeb Classical Library edition of Sophocles. In volumes I and II, he provides a faithful and very skilful translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains \u003cem\u003eOedipus Tyrannus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAjax\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eElectra\u003c\/em\u003e. Volume II contains \u003cem\u003eOedipus at Colonus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAntigone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Women of Trachis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePhiloctetes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147277971692,"sku":"9780674995321","price":92.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674995321-fragments.jpg?v=1786447876","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fragments-by-sophocles-9780674995321","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}