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  The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

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  • The Best of Both Worlds
  • To anyone who cares for classic theatre, the Theban plays by Sophocles are among the best to be found. And to anyone who reads the classics of Greece or Rome -- regardless of genre -- the...
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  The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)

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  • Review of Grene's Translation of Sophocles
  • I cannot compare Grene's translation with the original, as I have never read it, but, as an independent entity, Grene's work is masterful. The prose, especially in Oedipus Rex, is well-paced and...
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  • Good For an Introduction to Sophocles
  • The Lattimore/Grene translations of Sophocles balance ease of reading with closeness to the original Greek text nicely. Hugh-Lloyd Jones's translation, which can be found in the Loeb edition of...
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English versions of Sophocles? three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience... more

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  Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

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  • good
  • my girls had to read this book as part of their summer homework and they enjoyed it.
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  • A true classic
  • Rereading - and teaching - "Oedipus Rex" as an adult was an interesting experience. While I am always a bit wary of translations, the text itself (as translated by Robert Fitzgerald) is rich with...
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  • This play is preposterous!
  • I have never found a piece of work to be at once so lauded, and at the same time so vulgar and suggestive as The Oedipus Rex. How is it that you people do not see it for the crude, obscene work...
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  The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

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  • Sin and Redemption
  • The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles / 0-451-62847-0
    
    Roche's superb translation of the three dramas of Sophocles are a wonderful introduction to the phenomena of Greek drama.
    
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  • Oedipus at Colonus
  • Oedipus at Colonus was a fairly good sequel to Oedipus the King. In this book Oedipus and one of his daughters go to Colonus the Gods sent sickness because he killed his father and then married his...
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Here in one volume are the full texts of the seven extant plays of the Greek playwright Sophocles, regarded by the... more

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  Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)

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  • a solid but not an extraordinary translation
  • any time an undergraduate finds himself repeatedly correcting the work of a scholar, something is suspect. Roche is a prolific translator and he is, for the most part, a competent one. But there...
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  • Sophoclean epic
  • I'am not a scholar, so I would not seek to make comments on Translation. However, no matter what the Translation the beauty of Sophocles shines through. Not all the stories are Inovative or...
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  The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles II (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

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  • Sophocles!
  • This is the first edition of Sophocles in translation that I have read (in the old Modern Library edition). The three translators certainly do justice to Sophocles, though I take issue with the...
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To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a... more

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  Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition

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  • interesting read
  • This is an old and famous play and I have to say, it is interesting, suspenseful and with an unconventional plot. I am not a native English speaker but as far as the language interpretation goes,...
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  • Let's give away the ending on the back of the book!
  • I found this version of the play to be too cumbersome in its language. I had previously read Robert Fitzgerald's translation, which was marvelous and easy to understand. The argument between...
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Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the... more

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  Sophocles 1 (Methuen's World Dramatists)

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  • A Comment on Sophocles' Antigone
  • I generally do not review classics, because I find it impossible to adequately review a genuine classic with the necessary brevity. However, I plan on giving my opinion at some point on books with...
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  • Good For an Introduction to Sophocles
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  The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

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  • Insights of the Theban Plays
  • The Theban plays are extraordinarily rich in their observations on the human condition; let us consider lessons to be drawn from these.
    
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  • Oedipus a bit predictable
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Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently... more

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  Oedipus Tyrannus

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  • The most read and misread of the ancient Greek tragedies
  • "Oedipus Tyrannus" ("Oedipus the King") is not only the most read of all the Greek tragedies, it is also the most misread of the Greek dramas. The play's reputation exists in part because it was...
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This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff?s dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles?... more

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  Theban Plays

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  • Incredibly Modern and Performable!
  • After comparing numerous Theban Plays (Fagles, Lattimore, Roche, Fitzgerald and others) I came across the one on Hackett.
    
    I find it the most readable, comtemporary, up-to-date, powerful,...
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  Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

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  • Translation isn't transliteration
  • I try to reread Sophocles every few years, both because I enjoy him and because I find him a moral tonic. Since I can only haltingly stumble through his Greek, I always read translations, and I...
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These texts are stitched through with the vocabulary of excess, of madness, rage...those forces in his own psychology... more

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  Holderlin's Sophocles: Oedipus & Antigone

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  • Essential reading for a classical education
  • I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization.
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The first drama in the Oedipus Trilogy, "Oedipus Rex", is the tragic tale of Oedipus who has accidentally killed his... more

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  Oedipus Tyrannus; A New Translation. Passages from Ancient Authors. Religion and Psychology: Some...

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  • As modern today as it was in Ancient Greece
  • We read this classic outloud in my high school class this year and my students could not believe how modern the themes were. Everyone can relate to the detective element (many critics claim this...
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Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the... more

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  Oedipus, the King ; And Antigone (Crofts Classics)

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  • Essential reading for a classical education
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Sophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is... more

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  The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)

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One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues... more

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  Oedipus Rex

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  • excellent but no substitute for Jebb
  • This is an excellent text--but I find the play much more difficult than the Antigone and Jebb's notes are more extensive. One critic notes that these difficulties arise from the fact that in the...
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  • Fate or Choice
  • The book Oedipus Rex is a very complex play. I enjoyed it, but it is quite difficult to understand because its Greek theater, which has a different context of the language. The time period is in...
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  • Oedipus Rex- Difficult to understand but.....
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    Honestly, I did not enjoy reading Oedipus Rex. My opinion was that it was very hard to comprehend what was happening. Since it was my first time reading a Greek play I didn't understand it...
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