
By Sophocles, Richmond Lattimore, David Grene, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most
ISBN-10: 0226311538
ISBN-13: 9780226311531
Sophocles I comprises the performs “Antigone,” translated by means of Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by way of David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated via Robert Fitzgerald.
Sixty years in the past, the collage of Chicago Press undertook a momentous venture: a brand new translation of the Greek tragedies that might be the final word source for lecturers, scholars, and readers. They succeeded. below the professional administration of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, these translations mixed accuracy, poetic immediacy, and readability of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so vigorous and compelling that they continue to be the traditional translations. this day, Chicago is taking pains to make sure that our Greek tragedies stay the major English-language models during the twenty-first century.
In this hugely expected 3rd version, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. so much have conscientiously up-to-date the translations to convey them even towards the traditional Greek whereas maintaining the vibrancy for which our English models are recognized. This version additionally comprises brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, the youngsters of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia one of the Taurians, fragments of misplaced performs by means of Aeschylus, and the surviving component to Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for every play supply crucial information regarding its first creation, plot, and reception in antiquity and past. furthermore, every one quantity contains an creation to the lifestyles and paintings of its tragedian, in addition to notes addressing textual uncertainties and a thesaurus of names and areas pointed out within the plays.
In addition to the recent content material, the volumes were reorganized either inside of and among volumes to mirror the main updated scholarship at the order within which the performs have been initially written. the result's a suite of good-looking paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to those foundational works of Western drama, paintings, and lifestyles.