Seven Against Thebes
David Grene was born in Dublin. He studied at Trinity College and was awarded his MA in 1936. His translations include Herodotus' "Histories", Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound" and "Seven Against Thebes", Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex", "Electra", and "Philoctetes" and Euripides's "Hippolytus". Grene was a close friend and colleague of philosopher Allan Bloom and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow.