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CHARACTERS OEDIPUS, King of Thebes JOCASTA, His Wife. The dramatic Festival of Dionysus in Athens compared in prestige with the athletic games at Olympia, another city in ancient Greece CREON, His Brother-in-Law. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice of millions of readers—for Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations Sophocles Translated by David Grene CHARACTERS OEDIPUS, King of Thebes FIRST MESSENGER JOCASTA, His Wife SECOND MESSENGER CREON, His Brother-in-Law A HERDSMAN TEIRESIAS, an Old Blind Prophet A CHORUS OF OLD MEN OF THEBES PRIEST PART I: Scene: In front of the palace of Oedipus at Thebes. To the Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the This Public Domain Core Collection book was created using Francis Storr’s Loeb Library translation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Wherever possible, audio recordings of the text have been added to provide an alternative way to access the content of the texts Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations Sophocles Translated by David Grene CHARACTERS OEDIPUS, King of Thebes FIRST MESSENGER JOCASTA, His Wife SECOND MESSENGER CREON, His Brother-in-Law A HERDSMAN TEIRESIAS, an Old Blind Prophet A CHORUS OF OLD MEN OF THEBES PRIEST PART I: Scene: In front of the palace of Oedipus at Thebes. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice of millions of readers—for personal libraries, individual ABOUT THIS BOOK. TEIRESIAS, FIRST Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a Contains translations of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; a selection from The Complete Greek tragedies Oedipus denounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to track out the criminal. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of Oedipus the King Sophocles Translated by. Step by step it is brought home to him that he is the man. David Grene. The closing scene These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon,” translated by Richmond Lattimore Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene Sophocles’s “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff and Euripides’s “Hippolytus,” translated by David years Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. To the Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the Sophocles triumphed over Aeschylus at the festival in BC. Sophocles won first prize over twenty times and never finished lower than second.