Oedipus at Colonus

English-language translations

  • George Adams, 1729 – prose
  • Thomas Francklin, 1759 – verse
  • Edward Plumptre, 1878 – verse: (full text available at Wikisource)
  • Richard Claverhouse Jebb, 1904 – prose: (full text, with audio, available at Wikisource)
  • Francis Storr, 1912 – verse: (full text, with audio, available at Wikisource)
  • W. B. Yeats, 1934 – mixed prose and verse
  • Robert Fitzgerald, 1940 – verse
  • E. F. Watling, 1947 – verse
  • Gilbert Murray, 1948 – verse: full text
  • Theodore Howard Banks, 1953 – verse
  • Paul Roche, 1958 – verse
  • Robert Fagles, 1984 – verse
  • Don Taylor, 1986 – prose
  • Carl R. Mueller and Anna Krajewska Wieczorek, 2000 – verse
  • Ruby Blondell, 2002 – verse
  • Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger, 2004 – verse
  • David R. Slavitt, 2007 – verse
  • George Theodoridis, 2009 – prose: full text
  • Ian C. Johnston, 2015 – verse full text
  • Frank Nisetich, 2016 – verse

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