Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905), Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' plays appeared between 1883 and 1896. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship.

All seven plays of Sophocles in their full editions by Jebb are reissued in this series. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this new edition, each volume contains, in addition to Jebb's text, a General Introduction by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship, and an Introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for – and contrast with – subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.

Sir Richard C. Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' had a profound influence on subsequent scholarship.
P.E. Easterling is Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. She is general editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
Jenny March is the author of The Creative Poet: Studies on the Treatment of Myths in Greek Poetry (1987), The Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology (1998), and Sophocles: Electra, edited with introduction, translation and commentary (2001). She is attached to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.