Product Description: Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Women of Trakhis is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg...read more

Product Description: Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Elektra is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg...read more

Product Description: Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg...read more

Product Description: Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone—together known as The Oedipus Cycle. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles’s immortal series of plays centers upon the royal family of Thebes, whose struggles for nobility and greatness lead paradoxically to their own tragic downfalls...read more

Product Description: Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its narrative drive, grace, and sensuality, as well as for its irony. His new collection, Horsegod, adds powerful recent work to a selection from his earlier books and Greek translations. Horsegod follows Bagg through life-from the adventures of his youth to the enthusiasms and passions of his maturity...read more

Product Description: Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece that raises basic questions about human behavior that are still vigorously debated by students and scholars...read more

Product Description: When Greeks gathered to watch Athenian tragedy they expected nothing less than an `essentially religious experience', in which every emotion would be rung from them and they would be left weeping and wailing. This book presents faithful translations of Sophocles' three Oedipus plays ( Oedipus the King , Oedipus at Kolonos and Antigone ) which made plain the vulnerability of every man to the will of the gods...read more

Product Description: Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its power, grace, and sensuality, as well as for its humor and sly, knowing irony. In this, his latest collection, he offers some of the best of his earlier work as well as a selection of new poems...read more

Product Description: A contemporary translation of the Greek classic.

Product Description: First edition, hardcover. Author's second book of verse. Blurbs by James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Dust jacket rubbed with a short closed tear. viii , 54 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..