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18 reviews
Sophocles

Methuen Drama, 2008

Naxos recording perhaps a bit too modern
The only budget series of audio books and recorded drama comes from Naxos. One of their more recent entries is a very modern version of Sophocles' in a translation by Duncan Steen. In fact, some might find it a little too modern with its use of idiomatic expressions such as "You can't pin that on me"--which might be taken as an ironic reference to the final horrible deed of the hero. But when ...

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

15 reviews
Sophocles

Plume, 1996

Essential reading for a classical education
I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...

Antigone

1 review
Sophocles

Prestwick House, Inc., 2005

Essential reading for a classical education
I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...

Antigone: In a New Translation (Plays for Performance)

63 reviews
Sophocles

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

Essential reading for a classical education
I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

15 reviews
Sophocles

Harvest Books, 2002

A powerful and moving piece!
~I had to read OEDIPUS REX for my pre-IB sophomore English class, feeling not too happy with another dull, lengthy Greek play (we had to read THE ODYSSEY last year, and it got really redundant). But Sophocles' play...wow, it's totally different! The characters are so much more real and the speeches are deep and engrossing. Thebes is fascinating, substantial - and the issues grip you ...

Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus The Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth Classics of World ...

1 review
Sophocles

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2005

Amazon does not distinguish between one translation and another.
Note that all the reviews currently (3/2008) on this page are about some other book or books, not the WORDSWORTH EDITIONS version of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays.

Sophocles 1 (Methuen's World Dramatists)

12 reviews
Sophocles

A&C Black, 2003

Translations
Researching translations is never an easy task, and in this case, where you'll have to search on Amazon for the title and the translator to find what you want, it's particularly difficult. Here's what I've found by comparing several editions: 1. David Grene translation: Seems to be accurate, yet not unwieldy as such. My pick. Language is used precisely, but not to the point where it's ...

Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition

3 reviews
Sophocles

Prestwick House, Inc., 2005

A student friendly edition of the paradigmatic Greek tragedy
"Oedipus Rex" is not only the most read Greek tragedy, it is also the most misread. The play's reputation exists in part because it is presented as the paradigmatic example of the Greek tragedy by no less an authority than Aristotle in his "Poetics." No doubt this reputation played a part it making it one of the relatively few plays by Sophocles that has been preserved from ancient times. ...

The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

14 reviews
Sophocles

Penguin Classics, 2000

Translations
Researching translations is never an easy task, and in this case, where you'll have to search on Amazon for the title and the translator to find what you want, it's particularly difficult. Here's what I've found by comparing several editions: 1. David Grene translation: Seems to be accurate, yet not unwieldy as such. My pick. Language is used precisely, but not to the point where it's ...

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics)

6 reviews
Sophocles

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Strong Translation
H.D.F. Kitto was a distinguished interpreter of Greek tragedy. These translations, which were written for performance, are at once accurate, clear, and very elegant. Hall provides precisely as much information in the notes as the typical intelligent undergraduate requires. She also points out the few places in which Kitto has made minor departures from the Greek. I have found that ...

Sophocles: The Theban Plays: Antigone/King Oidipous/Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library)

2 reviews
Sophocles

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002

The Theban Plays of Sophocles in chronological rather than narrative order
"The Theban Plays" from the Focus Classical Library collects three of Sophocles's greatest tragedies, which are arranged here in the chronological order they were written rather than the narrative order that would have "Antigone" last. "Antigone" was actually written first by Sophocles. Following the death of Oidipous, his sons, Eteocles and Polyneices engaged in a civil war for the throne of ...

The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone (Thrift Edition)
Sophocles

Dover Publications, 2006

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles' 3-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus's search for the truth and its tragic results, remains essential reading for English and classical studies majors as well as for all students of Western civilization.

The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

6 reviews
Sophocles

Everyman's Library, 1994

The pinnacle of Greek tragedy...
These three plays stand as the best of the Greek tragedies, superior to the works of Sophocles' rivals Euripides and Aeschylus, mainly because these plays hold more depth and allow for more cultural analysis. They may seem long-winded at times, even repetitive, but I assure potential readers that there is a point to the speeches, and that many 'extraneous' phrases divulge the author's meaning or ...

Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoriative Modern Translations

1 review
Aeschylus, Euripides, ...

Applause Books, 2000

Classical are these classics.
Robert Corrigan has put together an amazing collection of classical plays. The translations are modern without losing the savvy and content of their original. This edition is sparse in stage directions which is the way it should remain. It was a real predilection for the modern translations to bear psychological truths and encript Stanislavskian drives to explain every character motivation. ...

Theban Plays
Sophocles

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by Meineck. Grippingly readable, all three translations combine fidelity to the Greek with concision, clarity, and powerful, hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes, ...

Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra & Philoctetes (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

3 reviews
Sophocles

University Of Chicago Press, 1969

The four non-Theban plays of Sophocles.
"Ajax" is probably the earliest extant play of Sophocles. Sophocles is the earliest known playwright to use painted scenery. He also decreased the importance of the chorus, added a third actor, and abandoned the trilogy format (each play is complete by itself). Ajax is the classical Greek tragedy about the downfall of a man who is sinned against and has a tragic flaw; in this case, insolence ...

Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, ...

6 reviews
Aeschylus, Sophocles, ...

University Of Chicago Press, 1960

What's in it?
Volume 1 contains Aechylus' Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Antigone, and Euripides' Hippolytus.

Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)

5 reviews
Sophocles

Signet Classics, 2001

Agony, despair, suffering, misery...It's all good.
If tragedy is, as Aristotle described, the imitation (that is, representation) of great people whose downfall induces a sense of pity and fear in the audience, Sophocles's plays are exemplary illustrations of the genre. The Sophoclean hero suffers, agonizes, despairs because of cruel fate or, more likely, some mistake he or she has made as a result of a character flaw such as pride or anger. ...

Oedipus, the King and Antigone (Crofts Classics)
Sophocles

Harlan Davidson, 1960

Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy--Oedipus the King and Antigone--for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of Greek theater. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Sophocles and a bibliography.

Sophocles: Antigone (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)

5 reviews
Sophocles

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Essential reading for a classical education
I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...

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