The Complete Sophocles Volume II

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the greatest classical dramarists: Electra translated by Anne Carson and Michael Shaw a gripping story of revenge manipulation and the often tense conflict of the human spirit; Aias translated by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear an account of the heroic suicide of the Trojan war hero better known as Ajax; Philoctetes translated by Carl Phillips and Diskin Clay a morally complex and penetrating play about the conflict between personal integrity and public duty; and The Women of Trachis translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory W. Dickerson an urgent tale of mutability in a universe of precipitous change. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.