SOPHOCLES. Aias. Treurspel van Sophokles, in het Nederlandsch overgebracht door Bertus van Lier. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1932. 47 p. Stiff wrappers. 25 cm (OiN p. 346/47) (Cover spotted and plasticized) (The Dutch composer and philologist Bertus van Lier, 1906-1972, translated at the beginning of his career Sophocles' Ajax for a performance by students of the 'Utrecht Stedelijk Gymnasium' in 1932. At first Van Lier was commissioned by the Gymnasium to compose music for a performance of Sophocles Ajax, but when he found that none of the existing translations of this piece paid sufficient attention to the Greek meter of Sophocles' original, he decided to take care of the translation as well. Van Lier's Ajas was staged with the help of an orchestra consisting of students of the 'Amsterdamsch Conservatorium'. (See for Van Lier bertusvanlier.nl/biografie.html) § Including a long newspaper clipping, probably dated 1932, with a review of the performance at the Gymnasium by 'C.A.S.' and of the music by 'Wr. P.')
Book number: 159350 Euro 35.00

Keywords: Aias, Ajax, Altertum, Altertumswissenschaft, Altphilologie, Antike, Antiquity, Greek literature, Griechische Literatur, Sophocles, Sophokles, Tragödie, classical philology, tragedy, vertaling