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by Euripides
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...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 1969

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780226307848
ISBN10: 0226307840
Co-Author: David Grene
Editor: Richard Lattimore
Pages: 234






by Sophocles
English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
Publication Date: Nov 1987

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780156838382
ISBN10: 0156838389
Co-Author: Robert Fitzgerald
Editor: Dudley Fitts
Pages: 257



by Sophocles
English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
Publication Date: Nov 1987





by David Grene
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 Natio...Read More
Publication Date: May 1969

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780226307787
ISBN10: 0226307786
Co-Author: Richmond Alexander Lattimore
Editor: Aeschylus
Pages: 180



by David Grene
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 Natio...Read More
Publication Date: May 1969





by Moses Hadas
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...Read More
Publication Date: Dec 1983

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780553212211
ISBN10: 0553212214
Pages: 400



by Moses Hadas
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...Read More
Publication Date: Dec 1983





by Sophocles
Publication Date: Feb 1984

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780140444254
ISBN10: 0140444254
Co-Author: Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox
Editor: Robert Fagles
Pages: 430






by Aeschylus
Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's...Read More
Publication Date: May 1999

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780140440676
ISBN10: 0140440674
Co-Author: Philip Vellacott
Editor: W. Bedell Stanford
Pages: 208






This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity,...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1998

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780192835888
ISBN10: 0192835882
Pages: 178



This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity,...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1998





by Sophocles
One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 1991

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780486268774
ISBN10: 0486268772
Pages: 64






by Aristophanes
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...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1987

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780140442878
ISBN10: 0140442871
Co-Author: Alan H. Sommerstein
Pages: 255



by Aristophanes
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...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1987





by Sophocles
Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at Colonus The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 1982

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780553213546
ISBN10: 0553213547
Co-Author: Moses Hadas
Pages: 304






by Wole Soyinka
A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 1974

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780393007893
ISBN10: 0393007898
Pages: 0



by Wole Soyinka
A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 1974





by Sophocles
The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. "King Oedipus" tells of a man who brings pestilence to...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 1950

Genre: Drama
ISBN13: 9780140440034
ISBN10: 0140440038
Co-Author: E. F. Watling
Pages: 176










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