Greek Roman category: 1023 books
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This file includes: AGAMEMNON, THE LIBATION-BEARERS, THE FURIES, THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS, THE PERSIANS, THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, and THE PROMETHEUS BOUND; all translated by E.D.A. MORSHEAD. According to Wikipedia: "Aeschylus ( c. 525 BC/524 BC c. 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright....
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Highly acclaimed as translators of Greek and Sanskrit classics, respectively, David Grene and Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty here present a complete modern translation of the three plays comprising Aeschylus' Orestia and, with the assistance of director Nicholas Rudall, an abridged stage adaptation. This...
Greek Tragedy
Themes and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures, it focuses on the broader questions of...
Found in Translation
Greek Drama in English
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. The history of translating...
Greek Theatre Performance
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and Wiles explores those elements which created...
Euripides II
Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides II contains the plays “Andromache,” translated by Deborah Roberts; “Hecuba,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Suppliant Women,” translated by Frank William Jones; and “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule.
Sixty years ago, the University...
Euripides I
Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides I contains the plays “Alcestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Medea,” translated by Oliver Taplin; “The Children of Heracles,” translated by Mark Griffith; and “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press...
Euripides V
Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides V includes the plays “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis,” translated by Charles R. Walker; “The Cyclops,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and “Rhesus,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago...
by Stephen Berg
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1978
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
Sophocles II
Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Sophocles II contains the plays “Ajax,” translated by John Moore; “The Women of Trachis,” translated by Michael Jameson; “Electra,” translated by David Grene; “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; and “The Trackers,” translated by Mark Griffith.
Sixty years ago, the...
Aeschylus I
The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Aeschylus I contains “The Persians,” translated by Seth Benardete; “The Seven Against Thebes,” translated by David Grene; “The Suppliant Maidens,” translated by Seth Benardete; and “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago...
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice...
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The ORESTEIA is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays, the Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. ...
Aeschylus II
The Oresteia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Aeschylus II contains “The Oresteia,” translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of “Proteus,” translated by Mark Griffith.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...