Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Boundand rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonusand Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.įor the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press.
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