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""These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.""--Robert Brustein, The New Republic ""This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.""--Kenneth Rexroth, The 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 ""These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead.""--Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian ""The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional.""--Commonweal ""Grene is one of the great translators.""--Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times ""Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet.""--Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

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Sophocles (ca. 495-405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist. David Grene (1913-2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought.

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