Sophocles I edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore

The Complete Greek Tragedies presents  Sophocles I edited by David Grene  and Richmond Lattimore  translated and with an Introduction by David Grene featuring  Oedipus the King  Oedipus at Colonus Antigone  These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.—Robert Brustein, The New Republic  This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation  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  These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead.—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian  The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional.—Commonweal  Grene is one of the great translators.—Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times  Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet.—Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review  Ancient Classical Greek Greece Mediterranean Literature Literary Drama Play Acting Actors Theater Theatre  BKNK