Myths of the Zodiac

Retells the myths attached to each of the 12 zodiacal signs and describes the astronomical and astrological background of the zodiac.

Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Marcelle Quinton

Religion & Spirituality

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Justice of Zeus (Sather Classical Lectures) [hardcover] Lloyd-Jones, Hugh [Nov 18, 1971] ... 0520017390

The justice of Zeus (Sather classical lectures)

University of California Press

Sophocles (497/6–406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human norm—but who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).
Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragments—ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers—are collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.

Sophocles, Volume I. Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus (Loeb Classical Library No. 20)

Literature & Fiction

SOPHOCLES

Dramas & Plays

Harvard University Press

Myths of the zodiac

Duckworth

Writing of historical interpretation, the great German classical scholar U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff once compared it with the Homeric picture of ghosts revived by the blood of the living, warning that in the very process of revival the ghosts in inevitably absorb an alien element. In this wide-ranging collection Professor Lloyd-Jones looks at the influence of the Greeks on creative thinkers and scholars since the close of the eighteenth century, when foe the first time, largely as a result of German scholarship, the Greeks began to be studied directly, rather than through Roman eyes. The men discussed range from Cloeridge, Leopardi, Gladstone, Wagner and Nietzsche to scholars of our own day such as Edouard Fraenkel, Rudolf Pfeiffer and E. R. Dodds. --- from book's back cover

Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

History

Europe

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

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