# Oedipus Tyrranos

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- Book: [Oedipus Tyrranos](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophocles/oedipus-tyrranos) ([Oedipus Tyrranos.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophocles/oedipus-tyrranos.md))
- Authors: [Sophocles](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophocles), [Emily H. Wilson](https://www.bookquiver.com/emily-h-wilson)
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN: 978-03-9365-514-8
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2021-06-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A brilliant new edition and translation! Wilson gives us an eminently contemporary version of Sophocles’ play, whose tonalities have one ear pitched to the stateliness of the ancient Greek and another to a terse English vernacular. With an introduction that condenses a long tradition of commentary into a highly readable form and a set of critical e