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… Lloyd-Jones’
prose is, then, just right for today’s taste, which is intolerant
of another’s poetic sensibility interposed between itself and
Sophocles.
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