{"product_id":"9781421411385","title":"The Other Four Plays of Sophocles: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the \u003ci\u003eTheban Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies—the \"other four plays:\" \u003ci\u003eAjax, Women of Trachis, Electra\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePhiloctetes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePunchy and entertaining, Slavitt reads Athena's opening line in \u003ci\u003eAjax\u003c\/i\u003e as: \"I’ve got my eye on you, Odysseus. Always.\" By simplifying the Greek and making obscure designations more accessible—specifying the character Athena in place of \"aegis-wearing goddess,\" for example—his translations are highly performable. \u003ci\u003eThe Other Four Plays of Sophocles\u003c\/i\u003e will help students discover underlying thematic connections across plays as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for David R. Slavitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Slavitt's translation is... lively and sometimes witty.\"—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, reviewing Slavitt's translation of \u003ci\u003eSeneca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best version of Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e available in English today... It is readable, alive, at times slangy, and actually catches Ovid's tone.\"—\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer, \u003c\/i\u003ereviewing Slavitt's translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphoses of Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence... These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome.\"—\u003ci\u003eClassical Outlook, \u003c\/i\u003ereviewing Slavitt's translation of \u003ci\u003eSeneca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Excellent translations that suit the ear and strengthen the feeble spirit of the time... One will do well to read these hymns, these poems, and find nourishment in them in Slavitt's translations.\"—\u003ci\u003eAnglican Theological Review, \u003c\/i\u003ereviewing Slavitt’s translation of \u003ci\u003eHymns of Prudentius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127720132848,"sku":"9781421411385","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781421411385_p0.jpg?v=1763739075","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421411385","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}