Raeburn, David

Sophocles (496 BCa406 BC) wrote more than a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, including "Antigone, Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus," His life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire. David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford and the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of Ovidas "Metamorphoses," Pat Easterling is a former Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.