Oedipus, King of Thebes (Murray 1911)

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Oedipus, King of Thebes (1911)
by Sophocles, translated by George Gilbert Aimé Murray

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OEDIPUS

KING OF THEBES

OEDIPUS, KING OF THEBES

OEDIPUS

KING OF THEBES

BY

SOPHOCLES

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY

GILBERT MURRAY

LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A.

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

AMERICAN BRANCH

NEW YORK: 29–35 WEST THIRTY-SECOND STREET

1911

Copyright, 1911, by

Oxford University Press

American Branch

The De Vinne Press

Contents (not listed in original)

OTHER WORKS BY THE
SAME AUTHOR

EURIPIDIS TRAGOEDIE (Oxford Classical Texts). Edited by Gilbert Murray. 3 vols., crown 8vo, 90c. each.

Vol. I Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea, Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromacha, Hecuba.

Vol. II Supplices, Hercules, Ion, Troiades, Electra, Iphigenia Taurica.

Vol. III Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus.

India Paper, Vols. I–III, $3.10; Vols I–II,
$2.25; Vol. III, $1.10.

THE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES. Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes.

The Iphigenia in Tauris. Cloth, 75c.

The Electra. Paper, 40c. Cloth, 75c.

Medea. Cloth, 75c.

The Trojan Women, Medea and The Electra in one volume. Cloth, $1.75.

THE RISE OF THE GREEK EPIC. 8vo, $2.50.

THE INTERPRETATION OF GREEK LITERATURE.
An Inaugural Lecture. 8 vo, 35c.

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