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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies by Sophocles Publisher Comments "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles Publisher Comments Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, these three plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles' translation conveys all of Sophocles' lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Comedies by Aristophanes Synopsis Contains The Birds, The Clouds, and The Wasps... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oresteia (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity— Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata by Aristophanes Publisher Comments In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles Publisher Comments ‘O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!’ The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496–406 BC) to create a powerful... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plays and Fragments (Penguin Classics) by Menander Publisher Comments Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of Old Cantankerous (Dyskolos), the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Playes of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Publisher Comments A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Greek Tragedies Volume 1 by David Grene Publisher Comments In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes by Aeschylus Publisher Comments In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aeschylus Prometheus Bound by Paul Roche Synopsis This brilliant translation of a classic work includes -- An essay on ancient Greek theater -- Extensive glossary of names & places -- Practical production... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Drama by Moses Hadas Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Burial At Thebes by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Acharnians: And the Clouds (And) Lysistrata by Aristophanes Publisher Comments Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes Synopsis This collection contains "The Wasps", one of Aristophanes' earliest plays, "The Poet and the Women", a gem of parody and low comedy, and "The Frogs", a comic masterpiece written under the shadow of defeat.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Orestes and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides Publisher Comments Spanning the last twenty-four years of Euripides’s career, this volume includes The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Sophocles and Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides Publisher Comments Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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