Selected poems
Subtitle: odes and fragments
By: Sophocles ; translated and introduced by Reginald Gibbons.
Contributors: Gibbons, Reginald.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780691130248
Work titles: Poems.
Description: "Sophocles' tragedies - from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus - are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm across Sophocles' writings, Reginald Gibbons has translated a selection of odes from Sophocles' surviving plays as well as fragments from his lost works. What emerges is a genuinely new sense of a Sophocles who was as much poet as dramatist. Bringing the Greek poet and his world surprisingly close to us, these translations also restore a sense of the long continuity of poetry. Complete with an introduction, this edition reveals Sophocles' poetic brilliance as never before."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Aphrodite of Kypris [fragment 941]; title: On Eros and Aphrodite [Antigone 781-800]; title: Eros, impossible to thwart [fragment 684]; title: The mighty Kyprian [Trakhiniai 498-530]; title: On man [Antigone 332-75]; title: The human lot [fragments]*; title: On song [fragment 568]; title: What Sophokles wrote on women was preserved by men [fragments]*; title: On sleep [Philoktetes 828-32]; title: The chorus plead for divine aid against plague [151-215]; title: But what does the seer Teiresias prove against Oidipous? [463-511]; title: On purity, insolence and punishment [863-910] a dance of hope [1086-1109]; title: Oidipous the cursed [1186-1222]; title: On the long life of Oidipous [Oidipous at Kolonos 1211-48]; title: On fate and the last of the family [Antigone 582-625]; title: Oidipous on the passage of time [Oidipous at Kolonos 607-23]; title: On behalf of Oidipous [Oidipous at Kolonos 1556-78]; title: In praise of Kolonos [Oidipous at Kolonos 668-719]; title: The fullness of the world [fragments]*; title: The sea [fragments]*; title: To Dionysos [Antigone 1115-52]; title: On the madness of Aias [Aias 596-645]; title: Aias's meditation before suicide [Aias 646-85]; title: On the afflicted Philoktetes [Philoktetes 169-90]; title: On Herakles [Trakhiniai 94-140].