Oedipus: 47 (Drama Classics) - Softcover

Sophocles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854596101 ISBN 13: 9781854596109

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2001

Synopsis

The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.

About this title

Review:

'The editors have selected translators who know Greek but who are poets themselves. The result ... is excellent' Tony Butler, Irish Press

'An excellent translation which more than most succeeds in capturing the poetry and the intensity of the original and so presents a realistic rendering of a classic...the modern rader hoping to glimpse the nature of Greek tragedy will do no better than read this translation.' Library Review

About the Author:

Stephen Berg is a founder and co-editor of the American Poetry Review and the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Daughters, Grief, Akmatova at the Black Gates, and In It.Diskin Clay, Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of numerous articles, translations, and reviews in classical journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1854596101
• ISBN 13: 9781854596109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160