Oedipus Tyrannos

"Oedipus Tyrannos is the first Greek play many readers encounter, and this version is their ideal gateway. Emily Wilson's verse line is effortlessly graceful, whether in taut, tense dialogue exchanges or in the lyrical choral odes."

-JAMES ROMM, Bard College

About the author

Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern studies, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.

Product details

• Authors: Sophocles
• Assisted by: Emily Wilson (Translation), Emily (University of Pennsylvania) Wilson (Translation)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780393870855
• ISBN: 978-0-393-87085-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 93 g
• Series: The Norton Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays