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Roger Lancelyn Green Manuscript
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 14 Feb 2018
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 14 Feb 2018
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Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Green, Roger Lancelyn. |
| Title: | Roger Lancelyn Green Manuscript |
| Dates: | 1945 |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Handwritten manuscript, a translation into English of Ichneutae, one of Sophocles' fragmentary plays, by British author Roger Lancelyn Green |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Roger Lancelyn Green (1918-1987) was a British author. A graduate of Oxford University, he was also a member of The Inklings, an Oxford literary discussion group whose other members included C. S. Lewis (with whom Green was close friends) and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Sophocles was a Greek playwright who lived during the 5th century B.C. Few of his works have survived in their entirety; the most notable are Oedipus Rex and Antigone. Fragments of more than a hundred other works have survived, including Clytemnestra, Cerberus, Herakles Epi Tainaro, and Ichneutae (a "satyr play," similar to bawdy or burlesque theatre)
The Roger Lancelyn Green Manuscript consists of a handwritten manuscript of 25 pages. According to the title page, the manuscript is Green's loose translation and expansion of Ichneutae, a play by the Greek tragedian Sophocles of which only fragments have survived.
Single item.
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Persons
Green, Roger Lancelyn.
Sophocles.
Associated Titles
Ichneutae.
Subjects
Authors -- English.
Greek drama -- Translations into English.
Greek drama.
Myth in literature.
Satyr plays.
Genres and Forms
Manuscripts (document genre)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Roger Lancelyn Green Manuscript,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Roger Lancelyn Green, 1966.
Manuscripts
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| SC 819 | The searching satyrs Jun 1945 - handwritten, 25 pp. | ||||||||||
| The title page reads as follows: "The Searching Satyrs: The Ichneutai of Sophocles (a Satyr Play), the fragments freely translated and the gaps conjecturally filled in by Roger Lancelyn Green, B. Litt., M.A." | |||||||||||