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Sophocles: Oedipus the King, A New Verse Translation by David Kovacs
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Sophocles: Oedipus the King, A New Verse Translation by David Kovacs

By Timothy Sandefur

Mar 02, 2021
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020

108 pp. $40 (hardcover)

Oedipus the King has been considered a masterpiece for two and a half millennia. No less a luminary than Aristotle called it the ideal tragedy. But today’s readers are often disturbed by its apparent injustice. How is it fair that the gods consign Oedipus—a genuine hero who strives to avoid com…

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