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Oedipus the King - A New Translation - cover

Oedipus the King - A New Translation

Sophocles

Translator Robert Bagg

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Summary

Award–winning poet Robert Bagg presents a dynamic translation of Sophocles’s celebrated play of ancient Athens, Oedipus the King. Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, Oedipus the King is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles. The ancient world’s most shocking and memorable tragedy, it is the story of Thebes’s resilient hero and his royal family brought to hellish ruin by fate, manipulation of the Olympian gods, and all-too-human weakness.
Available since: 08/07/2012.
Print length: 179 pages.

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