The Tragedies of Sophocles, in Two Volumes., Translated from the Greek; (with a Dissertation on Antient Tragedy.)

232; 318 pp. Translated into English verse by Thomas Francklin. With an introduction by Henry Morley. Engraved decoration on title pages. A collection of tragedies by Sophocles, translated into English from the original Greek, with a 'Dissertation on Antient Tragedy,' by Rev. Thomas Francklin, M.A. of the University of Cambridge. Sophocles, (born c. 496 BCE, Colonus, near Athens [Greece] - died 406, Athens), with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens's three great tragic playwrights. The best known of his 123 dramas is Oedipus the King. - Britannca