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Publication
Bantam (1967), Mass Market Paperback, 261 pages
Description
Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheComplete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles'bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, andretaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimore'sAeschylus, Bagg and Scully render Sophocles' dramasaccessible and exciting for the modern reader. Students new to Athenian drama,readers of classical literature, and anyone wishing to kindle anew theirpassion for Greek tragedy will find no more captivating entrance to thesemilestones of world literature than in Bagg andScully's The Complete Plays of Sophocles.
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LibraryThing member BeauxArts79
I rather enjoyed this translation.
Language
Original language
Greek (Ancient)
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none
Local notes
Ajax. Antigone. Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex). Oedipus at Colonus. Trachinian Women. Philoctetes. Electra