Background On R.C. Jebb Our Translator

For our production we are using the R.C. Jebb translation because it is said to be the most complete translation of Sophocles words.

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, (1841-1905) was a British classical scholar and politician.

He was educated at Charterhouse School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Later in 1891 he was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge University; he was knighted in 1900. Jebb was acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his time, a humanist and an unsurpassed translator from and into the classical languages.

Jebb is most noted for his translations of:

Sophocles (3rd ed., 1893) the seven plays, text, English translation and notes, the promised edition of the fragments being prevented by his death

Homer (3rd ed., 1888), an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey

Modern Greece (1901)

The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry (1893)


Citation:

Jeb, Richard Claverhouse in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.