The Seven Plays in English Verse
Read Haemon’s speech to Creon in Antigone, printed page 23: the advice against assuming one opinion is always right belongs to an argument between son and ruler. Then read Deanira’s opening in The Trachinian Maidens, printed page 177. She invokes an old maxim about judging a life only at its end, then contrasts it with her own present distress. Campbell’s verses differ from the anthology’s wording. The edition’s historical introductory claims and conventional biography do not settle every modern scholarly question.
Who it suits
Readers who want the argument or dramatic conversation around a familiar ancient saying, with English translation choices made visible.
Reading experience
Moderate; older English translation, classical names and historical ethical or dramatic assumptions. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- New edition, revised; World’s Classics translation first issued in 1906; this printing year unspecified
- Language
- English
- Translator
- Lewis Campbell
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (Henry Frowde)
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Catalogue metadata checked 2026-10-05. Descriptions and reading guidance are original Edsverb editorial text. A related-reading link does not establish that an archive saying occurs in this edition.