The complete plays of Sophocles: a new translation (1st ed.)

Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature’s earliest treasures inTheComplete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles’bestselling translations ofThe IliadandThe 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’sThe Complete Plays of Sophocles.