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"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".
David Grene (1913-2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought and coedited the University of Chicago Presss prestigious series The Complete Greek Tragedies.
Sophocles I: Three Tragedies
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Reviews:
"Review"
by New York Times Book Review,
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."
"Review"
by London Sunday Times,
"Grene is one of the great translators."
"Review"
by The New Republic,
"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."
"Review"
by The Nation,
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."
"Review"
by Times Education Supplement,
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."
"Synopsis"
by Gardners,
Includes "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone".
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
Oedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigone
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