The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
- ISBN-10
- 0801895413
- ISBN-13
- 9780801895418
- Series
- The Theban Plays
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-20
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Sophocles
Description
This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.
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