Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays I

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of a celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include 'Aeschylean Tragedy' (1996), an edition of 'Aeschylus Eumenides' (1989), 'Greek Drama and Dramatists' (2002) and 'Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays' Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.

warmly recommended to all fans of Sophocles, or more widely, to all fans of Greek drama.'

• PrefaceGeneral introductionHermione or The Women of Phthia: introduction, Text and translation CommentaryPolyxene: Introduction, text and translation commentarySyndeipnoi (The Diners) or Achaion Syllogos :introduction, text and translation commentaryTereus: introduction, text and translation commentaryTroilus: introduction, text and translation commentaryPhaedra: introduction, text and translation commentary