Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself...
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Greek Drama
Written by Moses Hadas
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $5.95
In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction...
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles
Written by Sophocles
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $5.99
Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax
Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus
The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the...
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The Oresteia
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Written by Aeschylus
Translated by George Thomson
Introduction by Richard Seaford
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2004
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.
The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the...
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