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| Genre/Form: | Tragedies Drama |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sophocles.; Reginald Gibbons; Charles Segal |
| ISBN: | 0195143736 9780195143737 0195143108 9780195143102 |
| OCLC Number: | 50041282 |
| Description: | ix, 197 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | On the Translation 37 -- Antigone 51. |
| Series Title: | Greek tragedy in new translations. |
| Other Titles: | Antigone. |
| Responsibility: | Sophocles ; translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal. |
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"Gibbons's translation is the most faithful to the original Greek I know ... his translation is the truest to Sophocles' language." --The Journal of Classics Teaching
"Gibbons' text remains faithful to the Greek and yet poetic and apt for the stage; and Segal's contributions offer an insightful introduction to the play as a product of its own time. The combination of the two makes this new edition a great tool for college teaching and a rewarding experience of Sophoclean drama outside the classroom." --New England Classical Journal
"These two new additions to Oxford's 'Greek Tragedy in New Translations' series only add to the luster of the previous releases. Each is firmly packed with insightful introductions, comprehensive and numbered notes, glossaries, and up-to-date bibliographies (the plays' texts take up about half of each volume). The collaboration of poet and scholar in each volume produces a language that is easy to read and easy to speak (compare, for instance

