Re: Looking for good translation of Oedipus for high school

Wonderful again!

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> On Sep 28, 2019, at 6:04 PM, Owen Cramer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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
>> fax: 860.685.2089
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>> Subject: [CLASSICS-L] Looking for good translation of Oedipus for high 
>> 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
>>