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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies

by Sophocles

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement

"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian

"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal

"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

Review:

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet." New York Times Book Review

Review:

"Grene is one of the great translators." London Sunday Times

Review:

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." The New Republic

Review:

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." The Nation

Review:

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase." Times Education Supplement

Synopsis:

Includes "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone".

Synopsis:

Oedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigone
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Table of Contents

Oedipus the King

Oedipus at Colonus

Antigone

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780226307923
Subtitle:
Sophocles I
Editor:
Grene, David
Translator:
Grene, David
Editor:
Lattimore, Richmond
Editor:
Grene, David
Author:
Grene, David
Author:
Sophocles
Author:
Sophocles, E. A.
Editor:
Lattimore, Richmond
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Location:
Chicago, IL
Subject:
General
Subject:
Drama
Subject:
Ancient and Classical
Subject:
Mythology, Greek
Subject:
Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Subject:
Continental european drama (dramatic works by
Subject:
Greek drama
Subject:
Tragedies
Subject:
Mythology, Greek -- Drama.
Subject:
General Poetry
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
1
Series:
Complete Greek Tragedies
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
August 1991
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
218
Dimensions:
8.10x5.28x.45 in. .47 lbs.
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