Sophocles. Whitelaw.
by Robert Whitelaw
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Tan calf binding, Gilt Rugby school emblem on front board, gilt tooling with green title plate on the spine.
SOPHOCLES. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE. ROBERT WHITELAW 1883. HARDBACK A clean little used early edition Sophocles (c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won thirteen competitions and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, though each was part of a different tetralogy (the other members of which are now lost). Sophocles influenced the development of drama, most importantly by adding a third actor (attributed to Sophocles by Aristotle; to Aeschylus by Themistius), thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights.
Robert Whitelaw (1843-1917) was born in London on 15 April 1843 and attended Lancaster Grammar School. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1861 (B.A., 1865; M.A., 1868), where he became a Fellow in 1866. He was assistant master at Rugby, 1868-1913. He died at Moultrie Cottage, Rugby, on 6 February 1917.Robert Whitelaw was one of England's foremost Ancient Greek Scholars.
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- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB651 /5C
- Title
- Sophocles. Whitelaw.
- Author
- Robert Whitelaw
- Format/Binding
- Leather binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rivingtons.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1883
- Size
- 13 x19 x4cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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