Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922–2009) was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.
Sir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering Eugene
Onegin, called a metaphrase—a scrupulous, bare explanation of the
original… Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We
can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of
Sophocles… Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb
version only confirms his impenetrable greatness.
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