Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Compl...

The enduring story of Antigone – the Greek princess who braved the wrath of a king and sacrificed her own life in order to honor her slain brother – is retold here for contemporary readers. Through the words of the blind prophet Teiresias, we watch t...