This is the first full-scale treatment of the play since the nineteenth century. Presenting a newly constituted text and apparatus, it takes full advantage of subsequent developments in... Læs mere
Sophocles' great tragedy Electra portrays the revenge taken by Electra and Orestes, following the murder of their father, on their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus. Otto... Læs mere
Precise yet fluent translations of the timeless Theban tragedies.
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles' play...