罗念生是我国著名的古希腊文学翻译家。本书是罗念生全集第二卷，收集的是罗念生先生翻译的埃斯库罗斯和索福克勒斯的悲剧。埃斯库罗斯是古希腊三大悲剧家中的第一位，因其对古希腊悲剧艺术发展作出的开创性贡献，被誉为“悲剧之父”。在埃斯库罗斯的七部传世剧本中，本卷收集了罗念生先生翻译的三部。索福克勒斯是古希腊三大悲剧家中的第二位，以完美的戏剧技巧享誉后世。索福克勒斯有七部剧本传世，这里收集了罗念生先生翻译的四部，按古代演出年代的先后排列。全集是迄今为止收集罗老一生著译最齐全、最完整、也最精当的版本，也是文学爱好者、古希腊罗马文学研究者的最佳读本和资料库。

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."—Times Education Supplement "These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian "The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."—Commonweal "Grene is one of the great translators."—Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times "Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."—Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

收有埃斯库罗斯的悲剧《被缚的普罗米修斯》，索福克勒斯的悲剧《奥狄浦斯王》，欧里庇得斯的悲剧《美狄亚》，阿里斯托芬的喜剧《鸟》，米南德的喜剧《古怪人》。

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the surge and majesty of his choruses and, above all, the agonies and triumphs of his characters. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by the renowned classicist Bernard Knox. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.