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 Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice of millions of readers�for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. This new, stand-alone edition of Sophocles� searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press�s classic series. Praise for David Grene and Richmond Lattimore�s Complete Greek Tragedies �This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.��Kenneth Rexroth, Nation�The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. . . . They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.��Times Education Supplement