Sophocles - Sophocles

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Résumé :

General Introduction, P.E. Easterling
Ajax: Introduction, Peter Wilson
R.C. Jebb: Prefaratory Note
INTRODUCTION
? I. The Ajax of the Iliad. ? 2. Cyclic epics. The
Aethiopis. ? 3. The Little Ilz'ad. ? 4. Ajax and the
Aeacidae. Legend that Ajax was invulnerable. ? 5. The
Ajax-trilogy of Aeschylus. (i) q01r.\.wv Kpluts. ? 6. (ii)
?pvuuat. ? 7. (iii) i,aA.aplvtat.
? 8. The Afax of Sophocles. Analysis. ? 9. Dramatic
unity of the play. ? Io. The veto on the burial. ? u.
The issue thus raised. ? I 2. The successive moods of
Ajax. His speech in verses 646-692. ? I3. His imprecation
upon the Greeks. ? 14. The divine judgment.
Athena. ? IS. Odysseus. ? I6. Teucer. His scenes
with the Atreidae. Modern criticism on this part of the
play. ? I7. Tecmessa. The Chorus.
? I8. The Teucer of Sophocles. His Eurysaces. ? I9.
The story of Ajax in later literature. ? 20. Illustrations
from ancient Art.
? 2I. Evidence for the date of the play. ? 22. The
title.
MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, ETC. .
?? r, 2. MSS. ? 3. Scholia. ? 4. The state of the
text. Lacunae. Proposed transpositions. Interpolations.
? S. Editions.
METRICAL ANALYSIS .
ANCIENT ARGUMENT TO THE PLAY...

Biographie:

Richard Clavarhouse Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the 19th century. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship.
P.E. Easterling, editor of this series and author of the new Foreword to each volume, is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, UK. She is general editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
Peter Wilson is University Lecturer at Oxford and Classics Tutor at New College, Oxford. He is the author of The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage (2000).