Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus / Edition 1

by Sophocles, Theodore Howard Banks

Overview

Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195010596
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/31/1956
Edition description:	Oxford University Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.97(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.49(d)

Table of Contents

Translated by Robert Fagles with Introductions and Notes by Bernard Knox

Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface
Greece and the Theater

SOPHOCLES: THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS Introduction to Antigone
Antigone

Introduction to Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King

Introduction to Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus

A Note on the Text of Sophocles
Textual Variants
Notes on the Translation: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Select Bibliography
The Genealogy of Oedipus
Glossary

Editorial Reviews

"The translation is contemporary, the notes are helpful, and the glossary is a useful addition. My students liked the text, too."—Professor Robert W. Sawyer, Hiram College

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