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Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Paperback – 19 April 2013

by Sophocles (Author), Mark Griffith (Editor), Glenn W. Most (Editor),
4.6 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
Edition: Third
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Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century.In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays.In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0226311511
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0226311517
  3. Edition
    Third
  4. Publisher
    *University of Chicago Press
  5. Publication date
    19 April 2013
  6. Book 1 of 2
    The Complete Greek Tragedies
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm
  9. Print length
    256 pages
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Sophocles (ca. 495-405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist.

Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Glenn W. Most has taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, since 1996 he has been a visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; recently he has also become an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

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.

Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ *University of Chicago Press; Third edition (19 April 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226311511
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226311517
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm
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  • Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2015
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    The best modern version
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  • Rachel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Translation
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 October 2022
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    This book was required for one of my classes and as someone with no previous knowldege of most of these plays I found the translation to be easy to understand. The book came in perfect condition and was packaged well. I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in these Greek plays.
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  • Angela Guillen Rossi
    5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book
    Reviewed in the United States on 3 April 2025
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    Good book
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  • Tyler
    4.0 out of 5 stars Entire series is good for new
    Reviewed in Canada on 28 December 2014
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    Entire series is good for new, English translations of the tragedies. They are easy to read and good for a non-Greek study of the plays. Notes in series are rather pathetic, though and would really benefit from a review and expansion rather than having so many simply say 'Lines missing/corrupted/uncertain.'

    But, in an English translation I guess notes on Greek text are rather pointless. Still, notes could be expanded to include information on other, more important topics such as imagery and its meaning in the context of Classical Greek society.
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  • Adeeb
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
    Reviewed in Canada on 8 April 2019
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    Got it with a scratched cover, nothing other than that
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