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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sophocles
Other Authors:	Gibbons, Reginald
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Sophocles > Translations into English.

Table of Contents:

Aphrodite of Kypris [fragment 941]
On Eros and Aphrodite [Antigone 781-800]
Eros, impossible to thwart [fragment 684]
The mighty Kyprian [Trakhiniai 498-530]
On man [Antigone 332-75]
The human lot [fragments]*
On song [fragment 568]
What Sophokles wrote on women was preserved by men [fragments]*
On sleep [Philoktetes 828-32]
The chorus plead for divine aid against plague [151-215]
But what does the seer Teiresias prove against Oidipous? [463-511]
On purity, insolence, and punishment [863-910]
A dance of hope [1086-1109]
Oidipous the cursed [1186-1222]
On the long life of Oidipous [Oidipous at Kolônos 1211-48]
On fate and the last of the family [Antigone 582-625]
Oidipous on the passage of time [Oidipous at Kolônos 607-23]
On behalf of Oidipous [Oidipous at Kolônos 1556-78]
In praise of Kolônos [Oidipous at Kolônos 668-719]
The fullness of the world [fragments]*
The sea [fragments]*
To Dionysos [Antigone 1115-52]
On the madness of Aias [Aias 596-645]
Aias's meditation before suicide [Aias 646-85]
On the afflicted Philoktetes [Philoktetes 169-90]
On Herakles [Trakhiniai 94-140].