| Translator | David Grene |
| First Written | 426 BC |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Origin | Greece |
| Publisher | Modern Library |
| My Copy | Modern Library |
| First Read | October 8, 2015 |
Oedipus the King
Notes
And man, what a clunky translation. I don't speak or read Greek of course, but this is just very... unpoetickal.
Noted on October 14, 2024
Picked this up to re-read because Felix is doing it in school. How nice to that they're graduating to better books for English class!
Noted on October 8, 2024
Quotes
Oedipus: Do not take them from me.
Creon: Do not seek to be master in everything,
for the things you mastered did not follow you throughout your life.Quoted on October 14, 2024
For Oedipus excites himself too much
at every sort of trouble, not conjecturing,
like a man of sense, what will be from what was,
but he is always at the speaker's mercyQuoted on October 14, 2024