Twelve leading scholars honour Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1960 to 1989, with wide-ranging and original papers on the Greek tragic poet Sophocles. They include general views of the poet, detailed work on individual plays, and essays on Sophocles in the European tradition.

Plain Words in Sophocles ; Trachiniae: Three Parallels ; Sophocles and the Democratic City ; Sophocles' Electra in Britain ; Philoctetes: A Problem Play? ; Sophocles at Rome ; Sophocles and Time ; Sophocles and the Divine ; German Translators of Sophocles ; Ancestral Curses ; The Antigone and Herodotus Book 3 ; Comic Patterns in Sophocles' Ichneutae

`a clearly focused volume, which has much to offer to anybody interested in Sophocles and Greek tragedy.' Felix Budelmann, Classical Rev. `The collection opens with what might well become a standard article on gods in Sophocles.' Felix Budelmann, Classical Rev. `In short, this is a pleasingly unified festschrift with some pieces that are likely to become standard points of reference - a worthy present for one of the most prominent Sophoclean scholars today.' Felix Budelmann, Classical Rev. `All in all, the book is worthy of the eminent scholar to whose honour it is dedicated.' G Roskam, Les Etudes Classiques, University of Namur. `Precise scholarship provide the point of reference for thirteen thought-provoking essays... This is where literary scholarship should be going.' Michael Silk, TLS 28/07/2000