OEDIPUS THE KING. The Greek text translated into English verse by Francis Storr. Introduction by Thornton Wilder.

First Collector's Easton Press Edition for subscribers of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. With illustrations by Demetrios Galanis, throughout, all of Greek theme, full page and as medallions, coloured in terra-cotta orange and black. Types designed by van Krimpen. 8vo, bound in the publisher's original brown leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. 159 pp. A very fine copy inside and out.

Edizione: first easton collector's edition. <br> sophocles has been called the father of modern theatre and the homer of tragedy. “according to aristotle in the poetics, sophocles was an innovator in tragedy: he added a third to the previously accepted two actors, introduced ‘scene painting’, and increased the chorus from twelve to fifteen; he also abandoned the aeschylean practice of writing trilogies on related events instead giving each play a self-contained plot.his characters were admired by aristotle for being ‘like ourselves only nobler’; his heroes and heroines are placed in circumstances in which they must act, and by their actions, which often have tragic consequences, they show their heroic stature. for aristotle, oedipus rex represented greek tragedy at its greatest.” - howatson.