Antigone

"I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'.

The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness.

This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and created art with...One of the most effective styles I have seen in a translation." -- Reader's report.

Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.