Theban Plays
- ISBN-10
- 0872205851
- ISBN-13
- 9780872205857
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing
- Authors
- Sophocles, Paul Woodruff, Peter Meineck
Description
This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teacher of Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts.
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