TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sophocles.
AU  - Bagg,Robert
AU  - Sophocles.
AU  - Sophocles.
AU  - Sophocles.
TI  - The Oedipus cycle: a new translation 
SN  - 9780062119995
AV  - PA4414.A2 B34 2012
U1  - 882.01 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperPerennial
KW  - Oedipus
KW  - Sophocles
KW  - Antigone
KW  - Sophocles.
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Drama
KW  - fast
KW  - Translations
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Oedipus the king -- Oedipus at Kolonos -- Antigone
N2  - "The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vibrant new translations by award-winning poet Robert Bagg Sophocles' three great masterpieces, gathered here in one volume, dramatize the inexplicable animosity directed at three generations of Thebes' royal family by Apollo, the inscrutable god who terrifies and deceives his victims into acts of incest, betrayal, and kin murder. These fifth-century BCE family dramas--Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone--are fraught with horrific crises, confrontations, and excruciating choices, all of which still rivet theatergoers and readers in the twenty-first century. Bagg's translations are modern in idiom while faithful to the Greek. They preserve the complexity of Sophocles' characters and their dialogue (whether searingly raw, subtly inflected, or infused with humor) and render Sophocles' choral odes in resonant poetry. The three plays of The Oedipus Cycle, already proven stageworthy, refresh and clarify Sophocles' narratives for a new generation about to discover timeless sources of pleasure and illumination in classical Greek drama."--Publisher description
ER  -