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Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
by Euripides And Grene  Publisher Comments In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three...
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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 translations...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles And Fagles Publisher Comments Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus....
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The Oresteia (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus And Fagles Publisher Comments This book is a play that has been translated into English. 'The Oresteia'...
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides And Vellacott Publisher Comments Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods....
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The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
by Sophocles And Watling Synopsis The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy about mankind's struggle against fate - "King Oedipus", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone"....
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I: Oresteia
by Aeschylus And Lattimore 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 translations...
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The Acharnians: And the Clouds (And) Lysistrata
by Aristophanes And Sommers 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...
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
by Aristophanes And Arrowsm Publisher Comments The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. This volumes features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA,...
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The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
by Plautus And Watling Synopsis Plautus argued by some to be the supreme comic writer of the Roman world, has also proved the most influential. In this translation, as suitable for the stage as for reading, Plautus' broad and lively humour is re-created....
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Heracles and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
by Euripides And Waterfiel Publisher Comments Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine...
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Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles
by Mark Ringer Publisher Comments Applies the concept of metatheater, or Rtheater within theaterS to the work of Sophocles. Analyzes all seven Sophoclean tragedies, revealing previously unrecognized facets of fifth-century performative irony....
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Oxford Readings in Aeschylus
by Michael Lloyd Publisher Comments This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus...
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Short Introduction To Ancient Greek Thea Rev Edition
by Graham Ley Publisher Comments Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what...
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Sophocles And Berg Publisher Comments Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece...
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The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides
by Aeschylus And Vellacott Synopsis In these plays, Aeschyluys (525BC-456BC) takes as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos - a chain finally broken only by the intervention of the goddess Athene....
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Lysistrata (Signet Classics)
by Aristophanes And Parker Publisher Comments Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease...
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Sophokles: Women of Trachis
by Sophocles And Pound Publisher Comments For Ezra Pound, Sophokles' Women of Trachis represented 'the highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to us...' Nothing rhetorical, nothing long winded survives in Pound's tragedy of Herakles....
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The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides And Vellacott Publisher Comments Euripides (c. 484-406 BC) was the most controversial of the three great Greek tragedians and the most modern. His major themes - religious scepticism, the injustices suffered by women and the destructive folly of war - are issues still vitally important...
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Iphigeneia in Tauris (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides And Lattimore Publisher Comments The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the...
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