Download e-book for kindle: Oedipus Tyrannus (Hackett Classics) by Sophocles,Paul Woodruff,Peter Meineck

By Sophocles,Paul Woodruff,Peter Meineck

ISBN-10: 0484597590

ISBN-13: 9780484597593

ISBN-10: 0872910091

ISBN-13: 9780872910096

Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff’s collaboration in this new translation combines the strengths that experience lately exotic either as translators of Greek tragedy: professional wisdom of the Greek and of the wishes of the educating classicist, intimate wisdom of theatre, and a very good ear for the spoken observe. Their Oedipus Tyrannus positive factors foot-of-the-page notes, an advent, level instructions and a translation characterised via its readability, accuracy, and power.

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