The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation

Bagg and Scullys renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles Ive ever encounteredif youre looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressive range of the original plays, you would be hard pressed to do better. Philadelphia Inquirer Award-winning poet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully present a gripping new translation of Western literatures earliest treasures in The Complete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and retaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimores Aeschylus, Bagg and Scully render Sophocles dramas accessible and exciting for the modern reader. Students new to Athenian drama, readers of classical literature, and anyone wishing to kindle anew their passion for Greek tragedy will find no more captivating entrance to these milestones of world literature than in Bagg and Scullys The Complete Plays of Sophocles.