Sophocles: Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic

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"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and... (read more)

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“I remember enjoying these thoroughly and with the way the plots and symbolism still appear in our society makes me say it is worthy read still. Freud's Oedipus complex, Jerry Springer ("my wife is my mother and I killed my father" seems very "jerry", no?)”

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