Translations Into English
- The first translation into English of Oedipus was by Alexander Neville and it appeared in 1563, as well as in Thomas Newton's collection of Seneca's plays, His Tenne Tragedies, in 1581.
- An English translation from Frank Justus Miller's 1938 edition of this work is available online at theoi.com and archive.org.
- Oedipus is one of the five plays of Seneca chosen and translated by E. F. Watling and published by Penguin Classics in 1966. ISBN 0-14-044174-3
- The English poet laureate Ted Hughes published a translation of the play in 1969. ISBN 0-571-09223-3
- In 1999 Professor Michael Rutenberg published his free translation of the play, into which he has placed excerpts from Seneca's moral philosophy. ISBN 0-86516-459-2
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