{"product_id":"9780856687662","title":"Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays I","description":"The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in  his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived  complete.  This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred  or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from  quotations, indirect references, and occasionally a papyrus.  The  selection includes four plays about the Trojan War and its  aftermath, all concerned with Achilles or his son Neoptolemus  (The Diners, Troilus, Polyxene, and Hermione), and two presenting  episodes from Athenian legend (Tereus and Phaedra).  The editors  have taken a special interest in the history of the myths that  Sophocles dramatised and the often startling modifications he  made to them; several of the plays also throw important light on  parallel dramas of Euripides such as Hippolytus, Andromache, and  Hecuba. A second volume of  Fragmentary Plays  is now available. Greek text with facing-page translation.","brand":"David Fitzpatrick, Thomas Talboy, Alan H. Sommerstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45921791017278,"sku":"9780856687662","price":1736.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780856687662_357fa397-2091-402e-a5e7-2e735c3417c1.jpg?v=1707343940","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780856687662","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}