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  • The Plays of Sophocles. Commentaries. Part IV: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Brill, Leiden, 1967. XIII,272p. Cloth. Cover a bit discoloured. Name and date on free endpaper. 'This work consists of a commentary preceded by a twenty-nine-page introduction and a list of the passages where the editor proposes to diverge from the text of A.C. Pearson. The introduction is of the usual type (....). The rest of the work is marked by three prominent faults: an excessive conservatism, a want of poetical taste, and an insufficient knowledge of the capabilities of the Greek language.' (JAMES DIGGLE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1969, p.150). € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

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