Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus the King
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.
Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, Oedipus the King
is the ancient world's most shocking and memorable tragedy; the story of
Thebes's resilient hero and his royal family brought to hellish ruin by
fate, manipulation of the Olympian gods, and all-too-human weakness.
This is Sophocles, vibrant and alive, for a new generation.