Reviews for The Tragedies of Sophocles

The average rating for The Tragedies of Sophocles based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-22 00:00:00 Ann Smith Terence Theatre complete Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama. His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others. This edition is the collection of his six plays. "The Girl of Andros", "The Eunuch", "The Self-Tormentor", "Phormio", "The Brothers" "Mother in Law". They deal with the love-life of adolescent boys and with associated tensions in their relations with their fathers, showing love triumph over obstacles of various kinds. The action is usually represented by standard characters such as scheming slaves, parasites, prostitutes, pimps, boastful soldiers and grumpy old men. The names of the different characters repeated in other plays on other characters make it challenging to remember who is who. The plays are meant to be "comic" but in reality, are more of moral education for young roman people and the population in general. His works had been acknowledged as classics soon after his early death, admired above all for their style but also their insights into human nature.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-25 00:00:00 Lorraine Hanson "Chremes and Demipho are two aged Athenians, brothers. Nausistrata, the wife of Chremes, is a wealthy woman, possessed of large estates in the island of Lemnos. Chremes, who goes thither yearly to receive the rents, meets with a poor woman there, whom he secretly marries, and has by her a daughter called Phanium: while engaged in this intrigue, Chremes passes at Lemnos by the name of Stilpho. By his wife, Nausistrata, at Athens, Chremes has a son, named Phædria, and his brother has a son, named Antipho." Got all that? And so now, "Phanium having now arrived at her fifteenth year, the two brothers privately agree that she shall be brought to Athens and married to Antipho." - Summary by Translator and ToddHW