The Complete Sophocles - Volume I: The Theban Plays (Hardcover, Critical)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference.
This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	November 2010
Editors:	Peter Burian (Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies) • Alan Shapiro (Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing)
Dimensions:	207 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	448
Edition:	Critical
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-538879-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-538879-8
Barcode:	9780195388794

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