The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)
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"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."?Times Education Supplement
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"Grene is one of the great translators."?Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
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Recent Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-31-2009
- 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 dramatic. Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone,...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-13-2007
- 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 conflicting Amazon reviews, and it...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-10-2006
- A GREAT greak dramatist but equal to the others
Sophocles is really one of the Greatest dramatists of all time, but equal to the others since he doesn't have the psychological penetration of Euripides
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- 5/5
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- Posted: Mar-20-2006
- Translations
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-31-2009
- 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 dramatic. Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone,...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-25-2002
- 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 Sophocles's tragedies, is unquestionably...
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