Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Paul Woodruff, Peter Meineck, Sophocles

Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

Paul Woodruff, Peter Meineck, Sophocles

312 pages first pub -450 (editions)

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Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of...

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