Opening of the book
SOPHOCLES
THE
SEVEN PLAYS IN ENGLISH VERSE
BY
LEWIS CAMPBELL, M.A.
HON. LL.D., HON. D.LITT.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
HON. FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
The World's Classics
NEW EDITION, REVISED
HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, NEW YORK AND TORONTO
SOPHOCLES
Born at Colonos
probably 495 B.C.
Died
406 B.C.
The present translation was first published in ‘The World’s Classics’ in 1906.
Sie hören nicht die folgenden Gesänge,
Die Seelen, denen ich die ersten sang.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PREFATORY NOTE TO THE EDITION OF 1883
ANTIGONE
AIAS
KING OEDIPUS
ELECTRA
THE TRACHINIAN MAIDENS
PHILOCTETES
OEDIPUS AT COLONOS
NOTES
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PREFACE
In 1869, having read the Antigone with a pupil who at the time had a passion for the stage, I was led to attempt a metrical version of the Antigone, and, by and by, of the Electra and Trachiniae.[1] I had the satisfaction of seeing this last very beautifully produced by an amateur company in Scotland in 1877; when Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin may be said to have ‘created’ the part of Dêanira.
Thus encouraged, I completed the translation of the seven plays, which was published by Kegan Paul in 1883 and again by Murray in 1896. I have now to thank Mr. Murray for consenting to this cheaper issue.
The seven extant plays of Sophocles have been variously arranged. In the order most frequently adopted by English editors, the three plays of the
Theban cycle, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus Coloneus, and Antigone, have been placed foremost.
In one respect this is obviously convenient, as appearing to present continuously a connected story. But on a closer view, it is in two ways illusory.
1. The Antigone is generally admitted to be, comparatively speaking, an
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