书名：Sophocles: The Complete Plays 索福克勒斯戏剧全集
作者：Sophocles索福克勒斯
译者：Paul Roche
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531537
商品尺寸：10.8 x 2.7 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：464

索福克勒斯（Sophocles），古希腊三大悲剧作家之一。索福克勒斯在长达70年的创作生涯中，他共写了120多部悲剧，但流传至今的只有7部。
这本Sophocles: The Complete Plays《索福克勒斯戏剧全集》共收录了索福克勒斯的7部传世作品：Oedipus the King《俄狄浦斯王》、Oedipus at Colonus《俄狄浦斯在科洛诺斯》、Antigone《安提戈涅》、Ajax《埃阿斯》、Electra《厄勒克特拉》、Philoctetes《菲罗克忒忒斯》、The Women of Trachis《特拉基斯妇女》。
本书为英文版，由英国杰出诗人、翻译家Paul Roche翻译。

Here are full texts of theseven extant plays ofthe Greek playwrightSophocles, who was regarded by the Greeks of his time ad a kind of“tragic Homer,” and honored by the Athenians with sacrifice long after his death.
This collection includes the revised translation by Paul Roche of the Oedipus cycle—Oedipus the King,Oedipus at Colonus, andAntigone—as well as translations ofAjax,Electra,Philoctetes, and theThe Women of Trachis.
In addition, Mr.Roche has supplemented histranslations with: a general introduction to thecollection; a preface to each of the plays; divisional headings and stage directions to aid students and actors; and a glossary with brief identifications of people, gods, and places mentioned in the play texts.
“A mad and furious master.” —Plato
Translated byPaul Roche 
With a new afterwords by Matthews S. Santirocco

索福克勒斯（Sophocles），古希腊作家，生于公元前496年，逝于公元前406年，出身于雅典富商家庭。曾经两次当选为将军。他起先出任税务委员会主席，该委员会的职责是负责改革雅典的整个财政政策，后来在西西里失败之后的困难时期又任“十人委员会”委员。索福克勒斯颇受雅典公民的爱戴。作品有：《俄狄浦斯王》《安提戈涅》《俄狄浦斯在科洛诺斯》《埃阿斯》《特刺喀斯少女》等。
Sophocleswas born at Colonus, just outside Athens, in 496 BC, and lived ninety years. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatiseOn the Chorus. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.
Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these beingAjax,Antigone,Oedipus the King,Women of Trachis,Electra,Philoctetes, and the posthumousOedipus at Colonus. A substantial part ofThe Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC.

Paul Roche, a distinguished English poet and translator, is the author ofThe Bible’s Greatest Stories. His other translations include Euripides:Ten Plays (Signet),Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Meridian) andThe Orestes Plays of Aeschylus(Meridian).