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An Oresteia
Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy
In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes—giving birth to a wholly...
The Complete Euripides
Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides’s Medea has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination,...
Sophocles I
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation...
Euripides III
Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides III contains the plays “Heracles,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; and “Ion,” translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts.
Sixty years ago, the...
Euripides IV
Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides IV contains the plays “Helen,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “The Phoenician Women,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and “Orestes,” translated by William Arrowsmith.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation...
The Complete Sophocles
Volume II: Electra and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke...
The Complete Euripides:Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create 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 to...
The Complete Euripides:Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create 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...
by Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is responsible for the great rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during...
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1990
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...
by Sophocles, Pedro De Blas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features...
by Aristophanes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Greek playwright Aristophanes spins wonderful stories combining politics, satire, and classic Greek gods in this collection of "Lysistrata and Other Plays." "Lysistrata" focuses on the women of Greece whose husbands leave for the Peloponnesian War. The women do not care about the war as much as they...