{"product_id":"oedipus-the-king-9780226768687","title":"Oedipus the King","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sophocles | David Grene\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of \u003ci\u003eOedipus the King\u003c\/i\u003e renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's \u003ci\u003eComplete Greek Tragedies\u003c\/i\u003e have been the preferred choice of millions of readers--for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. This new, stand-alone edition of Sophocles' searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press's classic series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's \u003ci\u003eComplete Greek Tragedies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.\"--Kenneth Rexroth, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. . . . They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46886142705815,"sku":"9780226768687","price":1145.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226768687.webp?v=1770250574","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/oedipus-the-king-9780226768687","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}