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Desire
Aphrodite of Kypros [fragment 941] 25
On Eros and Aphrodite [Antigone 781-800] 26
Eros, Impossible to Thwart [fragment 684] 27
The Mighty Kyprian [Trakhiniai 497-530] 28
The Human Lot
On Man [Antigone 332-75] 33
The Human Lot [fragments] 36
On Song [fragment 568] 42
What Sophokles Wrote on Women Was Preserved by Men [fragments] 43
Fragments of Thamyras 45
On Sleep [Philoktetes 828-32] 47
The Odes of Oidipous Tyrannos
The Chorus Plead for Divine Aid against Plague [151-215] 51
But What Does the Seer Teiresias Prove against Oidipous? [463-511] 54
On Purity, Insolence, and Punishment [863-910] 57
A Dance of Hope [1086-1109] 60
Oidipous the Cursed [1186-1222] 62
The End of the Family of Labdakos
On the Long Life of Oidipous [Oidipous at Kolonos 1211-48] 67
On Fate and the Last of the Family [Antigone 582-625] 69
Oidipous on the Passage of Time [Oidipous at Kolonos 607-23] 72
On Behalf of Oidipous [Oidipous at Kolonos 1557-78] 73
Homeland Earth, Sea, and Sky
In Praise of Kolonos [Oidipous at Kolonos 668-719] 77
The Fullness of the World [fragments] 80
The Sea [fragments] 83
To Dionysos [Antigone 1115-52] 86
The Fate of the Hero
On the Madness of Aias [Aias 596-645] 91
Aias's Meditation before Suicide [Aias 646-85] 93
On the Afflicted Philoktetes [Philoktetes 169-90] 95
On Herakles [Trakhiniai 94-140] 97
Notes 101
Index of First Lines 127
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Venancio Davila
reviewed Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments on June 19, 2015
Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments
I picked this up as part of a personal research project I'm working on, and found it interesting. It's always fascinating to look at translations of what little we have from the ancients, because, no matter how hard we try, we honestly don't have a clue what was really going on with them. We can speculate and guess, but we'll never fully understand their world. It's kind of fascinating, these attempts to speak with the dead. Reginald Gibbons, the translator, has included a long introduction explaining / justifying his choices, which for me was the most interesting part of the book. I've always been a sucker for the why behind the what.
That being said, the first poem in the collection is my favorite: Aphrodite of Kypros, fragment 941. It captures the full complexity of Aphrodite, who was, for the Greeks, not JUST a love goddess, but a ruler of all the strong passions, including anger. Of all the fragments included, it's this one that makes me feel like I have a ghost of a chance of understanding Sophocles. Only somebody who has love, lost, struggled, wept, raged can understand Aphrodite fully, and Gibbons's translation nails it.
As for the rest, they did not spark me personally, but that does not mean they won't be of interest to the armchair scholar. And it's definitely a must for the few, proud classics scholars left among us.
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Add Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments, Sophocles' tragedies—from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus—are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the f, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments to your collection on WonderClub |
