Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Sophocles; Kitto, H. D. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019282922X ISBN 13: 9780192829221

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection of Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra not only offers the reader the most influential and famous of Sophocles' works, it also presents in one volume the two plays dominated by a female heroic figure, and the experience of the two great dynasties featured in Greek tragedy--the houses of Oedipus and Agamemnon.

About this title

About the Author:

Edith Hall is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, and the author of Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy (OUP 1989).

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 019282922X
• ISBN 13: 9780192829221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Hall Edith