In nine paperback volumes that comprise this series, Grene and Lattimore offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.... These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket. The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase...