Re: Looking for good translation of Oedipus for high school

Andy's right. They want cheap, and I guess the thing is to steer them away from the older public-domain Storr-Jebb which *is* cheap. You can find pdf texts to print for yourself out of Fitts-Fitzgerald etc., which would be still cheaper. Nothing in English quite like Hölderlin's German, though!
Owen Cramer

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Excellent!

Dan

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:29 PM Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew < [email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Dan.
> I really like the version by Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff, from 
> Hackett. It's very good in its own right, and the intro and notes are 
> excellent too.
>
>
>
> Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
> Professor of Classical Studies
> Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek
> Wesleyan University
> Middletown, CT  06459
> ph: 860.685.2065
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> school
>
> I'm going to Haddonfield HS this week to talk about Oedipus.  Last 
> year, was *Medea*.  Both times they were using lousy translations, and 
> I'm going to recommend S. Murnaghan's *Medea *for future use.  Now a 
> number of teachers are asking for recommendations of a good cheap modern Oedipus.
> Not having taught this for a while, I'm asking others what they would 
> recommend.  I'd welcome any suggestions.
>
> These are smart students, and the HS elective system allows a full 
> semester on Greek Drama. They have a very able teacher.  I wish every 
> public education system were as lucky.  (Underside of this: recent 
> finding that the most segregated area of this highly segregated state 
> (NJ) is the Philadelphia corridor.  Haddonfield has a lot of work 
> ahead.)
>
> Best,
>
> Dan Tompkins
>