SOPHOCLES; ROBERT FAGLES [TRANSLATOR],.
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus.
New York: The Viking Press , 1982.
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"I am taught by suffering to endure": First Edition of Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays; inscribed by translator Robert Fagles
First edition of this vivid and accessible translation of Sophocles’ tragedies. Royal octavo, publisher's original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator on the half-title page, "For Rooney - three dark plays - Bob Fagles." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ann Gold. Translated by Robert Fagles. Introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.
The Three Theban Plays—Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus—translated by Robert Fagles, offers a masterful and accessible rendering of Sophocles’ tragic trilogy that has become a standard in modern classical scholarship and education. Fagles’ translation, praised for its poetic intensity and clarity, captures both the grandeur and the psychological complexity of the original Greek texts, while the introduction and commentary by classicist Bernard Knox provide valuable historical and interpretive context. Through this translation, the enduring themes of fate, civic duty, and moral conflict in Sophocles’ work resonate powerfully with contemporary readers.
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus.
$850.00
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