A New Verse Translation
David Kovacs
23 April 2020
ISBN: 9780198854845
128 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
In Stock
Price: £12.99Sophocles' great masterpiece, Oedipus the King, is here translated into highly-polished English verse alongside an introduction and notes to the translation which seek to make his achievements in both plot and language accessible to students at graduate, undergraduate, and secondary school level.
Sophocles' great masterpiece, Oedipus the King, is here translated into highly-polished English verse alongside an introduction and notes to the translation which seek to make his achievements in both plot and language accessible to students at graduate, undergraduate, and secondary school level.
David Kovacs, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus), University of Virginia
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University in 1976, David Kovacs joined the classics faculty at the University of Virginia, where he taught Greek and Latin language and literature for forty years.
"Kovacs' lively verse translation, with introduction and notes, of this seminal play, will be of value to students and lay readers alike." - Michael Halleran, William & Mary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Llewelyn Morgan
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Xenophon, Emily Baragwanath, Anthony Verity
Sophocles, Oliver Taplin
George Bernard Shaw, Lawrence Switzky
George Bernard Shaw, Sos Eltis
Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki
George Bernard Shaw, Brad Kent
Diskin Clay, James H. Brusuelas
George Bernard Shaw, Matthew Yde
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