Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays I (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition)

The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays from quotations, indirect references, and the occasional papyrus. The selection includes four plays about the Trojan War and its aftermath, all concerned with Achilles or his son Neoptolemus (The Diners, Troilus, Polyxene, and Hermione), and two presenting episodes from Athenian legend (Tereus and Phaedra). The editors have taken a special interest in the history of the myths that Sophocles dramatised and the often startling modifications he made to them; several of the plays also throw important light on parallel dramas of Euripides such as Hippolytus, Andromache, and Hecuba. A second volume of Fragmentary Plays will follow.David Fitzpatrick is the author of 'Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays I (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780856687655 and ISBN 0856687650.