Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King

<p>Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of <i>Oedipus the King</i> renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s <i>Complete Greek Tragedies</i> have been the preferred choice of millions of readers—for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use.  This new, stand-alone edition of Sophocles’ searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press’s classic series.<br /><br /><br /><br />Praise for David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s <i>Complete Greek Tragedies</i></p><br /><p>“This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.”—Kenneth Rexroth, <i>Nation<br /></i><br /><br />“The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. . . . They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.”—<i>Times Education Supplement<br /></i></p>