Sophocles, the Seven Plays in English verse

by Sophocles

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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

NEW EDITION, REVISED

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON, NEW YORK AND TORONTO

SOPHOCLES

Sophocles

Born at Colonus	⁠	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

	Page
Preface	xi
Prefatory Note to the Edition of 1883	xiii
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Antigone	1
Aias	41
King Oedipus	83
Electra	129
The Trachinian Maidens	175
Philoctetes	215
Oedipus at Colonos	259
Notes	313

The World’s Classics

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SOPHOCLES

THE SEVEN PLAYS IN ENGLISH VERSE

CAMPBELL

Oxford: Horace Hart

Printer to the University

SOPHOCLES

THE SEVEN PLAYS

 

TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH VERSE

BY

LEWIS CAMPBELL

 

HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON, NEW YORK and TORONTO.

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WORKS BY THE

REV. LEWIS CAMPBELL,

Hon. LL.D., Glasgow; Hon. D.Litt., Oxford,

Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews.

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I. WRITINGS.

1. Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. Smith, Elder & Co. 1904.

2. A Guide to Greek Tragedy. Rivingtons. 1891.

3. Religion in Greek Literature. Longmans. 1898.

4. Plato’s Republic, in Murray’s Home and School Library. 1902.

5. Life of James Clerk Maxwell (with W. Garnett). Macmillan (second edition). 1884.

6. Life of Benjamin Jowett (with E. Abbott). Murray. 1897.

7. The Christian Ideal (Sermons). Macmillan. 1877.

8. Nationalization of the Old English Universities. Chapman & Hall. 1900.

II. EDITIONS.

1. Plato’s Theaetetus. Clarendon Press (second edition). 1883.

2. Plato’s Sophistes and Politicus. Clarendon Press. 1867.

3. Plato’s Republic (with B. Jowett). Clarendon Press. 1894.

4. Sophocles, Plays and Fragments. Clarendon Press. 1879–81.

5. Sophocles, seven Plays in smaller edition (with E. Abbott). Clarendon Press. 1886.

6. Aeschylus, in Macmillan’s Parnassus Series. 1897.

7. Jowett’s Epistles of St. Paul. Third edition, abridged. Murray. 1895.

8. Jowett’s Theological Essays (Selected), with Introduction. Clarendon Press. 1906.

9. T. Campbell’s Poems (Selection), with Introduction, Golden Treasury Series. Macmillan. 1904.

10. Letters of B. Jowett (with E. Abbott). Murray. 1898.

III. TRANSLATIONS.

1. Aeschylus, in English Verse. Kegan Paul. 1900.

2. Sophocles, in English Verse. Murray. 1883.