The Theban Plays of Sophocles

[Tom Hart]

Would anyone be able to recommend a good translation of the Theban Plays (Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone)?

 

[py3ak]

I find the translation by Lewis Campbell very compelling: Sophocles in English Verse.

 

[ZackF]

Used the penguin translation in college. Worked for me.

 

[Pergamum]

As usual I advocate for an audio version, linked in this case here:

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Play...XA6VJED6H6NWYMF2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1

Some of the translations, I just cannot understand well and even this "readable" audio-version I must sit in a quiet room or a dark bath to "soak it in" and understand it. Otherwise, my mind drifts or I immediately lose what I just heard.

 

[hammondjones]

After you read them, watch the play "The Gospel at Colonus", it in on youtube, admittedly a loose adaptation. The music is top notch, however.