| #494402 in Books | 2013-10-31 | 2013-09-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.83 x5.43l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Very Helpful Notes on Translation--not just on context and related texts!|By Mary Claire|I'm a grad student in Classics and I gotta say, I love this book. The notes are so very helpful that you could probably translate without a lexicon handy--you will not like this if you don't like translation notes, which I am a big fan of. I gotta say, he translates a lot of the lines, whic||"This volume is an excellent addition to an excellent series." |The Classical Journal
"This excellent commentary by Seth Schein ... deserves to become both a frequent point of reference for scholars and a welcome resource for teachers and their pup
Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and represents contrasts and conflicts between innocence and experience, ends a...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) | Sophocles. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
