Author:Sophocles

Sophocles
(c. 496 BCE – 406 BCE)

Sophocles

Works

Tragedies

• Ajax (c. 450–430 BCE)
• Trachiniae (c. 450–425 BCE)
• Antigone (441 BCE)
• Oedipus Rex (429 BCE)
• Electra (c. 410 BCE)
• Philoctetes (409 BCE)
• Oedipus at Colonus (406 BCE)

Satyr plays

• Ichneutae (The Trackers)

Compilations

• The Tragedies of Sophocles, from the Greek, 2 vols., trans. Thomas Francklin [1758] (1759) (transcription project)
• The Tragedies of Sophocles, trans. Robert Potter (1788)
• The Tragedies of Sophocles, translated into English verse, 2 vols., trans. Thomas Dale (1824)
• Selections from the choric poetry of the Greek dramatic writers by Joseph Anstice (1832)
• The Tragedies of Sophocles, in English prose, trans. T. A. Buckley (1849) [1]
• The Tragedies of Sophocles, rev. ed., trans. E. H. Plumptre (1878)
• Sophocles, the Seven Plays in English verse, trans. Lewis Campbell (1906) (transcription project)
• The Tragedies of Sophocles, translated into English prose, trans. Richard Claverhouse Jebb [1904] (1917)
• Sophocles, in English verse, 3 vols., trans. Arthur S. Way (1909)
• Sophocles, with an English translation, vol. I & vol. II trans. Francis Storr (1912, 1919) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Fragments

• Fragments, in The Tragedies of Sophocles, rev. ed., trans. E. H. Plumptre (1878)
• Fragments of lost dramas [2]

Works about Sophocles

Books

• Sophocles, by Clifton Wilbraham Collins, part of the Ancient Classics for English Readers series (1871)
• "The Life and Writings of Sophocles", pages xxi–xcv in The Tragedies of Sophocles by E. H. Plumptre (1878)
• Sophocles, by Lewis Campbell, part of the Classical Writers series (1879)
• "Sophocles", Chapter XI. in A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, 1901.

Encyclopedia articles

• “Sophocles”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Sophocles," by Paul Shorey in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Sophocles," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Sophocles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Sophocles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Sophocles," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Essays

• "On a Passage of the Philoctetes of Sophocles from the German of Welcker", in The Philological Museum, 2: 468–472 (1833), by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, translated by Connop Thirlwall
• “On the Irony of Sophocles” by Connop Thirlwall, Philological Museum, 2: 483–537. (1833)
• "Sophocles", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• “The Genius of Sophocles” in Essays and Addresses by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1907)
• “Suidas on the Change Ascribed to Sophocles in Regard to Trilogies” in Essays and Addresses by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1907)