Sophocles

As before, Eliza Lynn had done plenty of research for this novel, and she passes it on, in lengthy descriptions of the places, costume, and ceremonies of ancient Athens. She employs specialised diction (...

CL published, with her name, The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy, an edition of twenty-five translated plays by Euripides and Sophocles (which had appeared in French in 1759).

Phippy, the skinny, inadequate, lower-class Hugh Minden Philipson, makes a progress from school . . . . . . to school (first as pupil, then as teacher). A scholarship takes him to an evidently...

The language, entirely spare and unadorned, links the play on the one hand to contemporary television reports and on the other to the ancient mode of tragedy. Ian with his eyes put out unaffectedly recalls...

SH 's first play, a rendering from ancient Greek of Philoctetes by Sophocles , titled The Cure at Troy, reached print after being produced and taken on tour by the theatre company Field Day

SH 's version of the Antigone of Sophocles opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Its title, The Burial at Thebes, echoes in structure his earlier translation The Cure at Troy.

When asked, in a seventieth birthday interview on Raidió Teilifís Éireann , what he might like as an epitaph, he quoted the words which Sophocles gives the Messenger reporting on the hero's death in Oedipus...

INH based her Orestes on the ancient Greek legend already dramatised by Sophocles and Euripides . Her play begins when Orestes is very young. He vows to have vengeance on both his mother, Clytemnestra, and...

The story borrows from that of Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex. Its full title, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Life and Death of a Man of Character, highlights the way that this novel focuses...

The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan , via Charles Baudelaire , T. S. Eliot

The play was published by Gallimard in Paris the same year. Though it remembers the handling of this story by Sophocles , it is not a translation.

Ruth Fainlight has recently completed, in collaboration with classics professor Robert J. Littman , a new translation from Sophocles : The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, published in early 2009...

She includes here Jocasta's Death from her ongoing Sophocles translation: a passage which she says is very accurate in its rendering of the original.

Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...

In the opening scene of Darkness and Day, two old friends discuss the approaching death of one of them. The plot is a version of the Oedipus story: Bridget Lovat kills her mother and...