Sophocles / edited by David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sophocles.

Contributor:

Slavitt, David R., 1935-

Bovie, Smith Palmer.

Series:

Penn Greek drama series

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 1998

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Sophocles--Translations into English.

Sophocles.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Translations into English.

Mythology, Greek--Drama.

Mythology, Greek.

Genre:

Drama.

Tragedies.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998-

Summary:

This volume presents fresh versions of Sophocles's Theban plays, which include the most famous of the ancient Greek tragedies, King Oedipus. Sophocles reveals the history of Oedipus from the fulfillment of the oracle that foretold he would kill his father, outwit the Sphinx, marry his mother, and have a family, through his banishment and tortured death as a blind man and the attempted redemption of the family by his daughter, Antigone.

Contents:

1. Ajax / translated by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish. Women of Trachis / translated by Brendan Galvin. Electra / translated by Henry Taylor. Philoctetes / translated by Armand Schwerner

v. 2. King Oedipus. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone.

Notes:

Vol. 2 translations by Jascha Kessler, George Garrett, and Kelly Cherry.

ISBN:

0812234456

0812216539

0812234626

0812216660

OCLC:

38179799