The Complete Sophocles Volume I The Theban Plays [Paperback]

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, theGreek Tragedy in New Translationsseries offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference.

This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes:Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies;Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; andAntigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.

Oedipus the KingStephen Berg, poet; Diskin Clay, Duke University
Introduction
Oedipus the King
Notes
Oedipus at ColonusEamon Grennan, poet; Rachel Kitzinger, Vassar College
Introduction
Oedipus at Colonus
Notes
AntigoneReginald Gibbons, Northwestern University; the late Charles Segal, classicist
Introduction
Antigone
Notes
Glossary
For Further Reading

Peter Burianis Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Duke University

Alan Shapirois Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill