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Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays IAris & Phillips Classical Texts 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

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Each play is introduced by a summary bibliography and an appreciative essay which analyses the mythic background and plot: reconstructs the play as far as the fragmentary text and secondary evidence allow

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The Introduction offers an analysis of the play

Next come longer unadapted extracts from a range of authors

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