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Sophocles

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Description for Sophocles paperback. Editor(s): Slavitt, David; Bovie, Palmer. Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

This volume presents fresh versions of Sophocles's Theban plays, which include the most famous of the ancient Greek tragedies, King Oedipus. Sophocles reveals the history of Oedipus from the fulfillment of the oracle that foretold he would kill his father, outwit the Sphinx, marry his mother, and have a family, through his banishment and tortured death as a blind man ... Read more

Translations are by Jascha Kessler (King Oedipus), George Garrett (Oedipus at Colonus), and Kelly Cherry (Antigone).

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Series
Penn Greek Drama Series
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812216660
SKU
V9780812216660
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About David R. Slavitt
About the Translators: Kelly Cherry is the author of more than a dozen books, including five volumes of poetry (most recently Death and Transfiguration) five novels (most recently My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers), a collection of essays (Writing the World), and an autobiographical narrative (The Exiled Heart). Over 400 of her poems have appeared in such journals as The ... Read more

Reviews for Sophocles
"Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail."—San Francisco Chronicle "A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible,' and consummately American in tone and feeling. For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces; after 2,500 years, the poetry of Euripides and ... Read more

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