OUR STORE IS CLOSED ON ANZAC DAY: THURSDAY 25 APRIL
Alex Garvie is Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Aeschylus Supplices: Play and Trilogy (1969, 2nd edition 2006); of editions of Aeschylus' Choephori (1986) and Persae(2009); Homer's Odyssey VI-VIII (1994); Sophocles's Ajax (1998) and a companion volume to this book, The Plays of Sophocles (2nd edition, Bloomsbury, 2016).
This second edition of Garvie’s introduction to Sophocles is an essential read for sixth form and undergraduate students. It provides important information and analysis in an easy-to-read style which is accessible to a wide audience. * Journal of Classics Teaching * This is a superb introduction to Sophocles. Alex Garvie offers an up-to-date and compelling case for the dramatic power and moral complexity of these ancient tragedies and their headstrong hero(in)es. Each play is presented and analyzed with admirable clarity and concision. -- Jon Hesk, Senior Lecturer in Greek and Classical Studies, University of St Andrews, UK This is an excellent brief introduction to Sophocles, which packs a lot into less than a hundred pages. It is lively and up-to-date, and offers reliable and well-informed discussions of Sophocles' seven surviving plays. Garvie has many good ideas of his own, especially about staging. He is an ideal guide to these great plays. -- Michael Lloyd, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University College Dublin, Ireland
