Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics)

Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics)
Euripides (Author), Richard Rutherford (Editor, Introduction), John Davie (Translator)

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
Aeschylus (Author), W. B. Stanford (Editor, Introduction), Robert Fagles (Translator)
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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, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, it's spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.

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• Published on: 1984-02-07
• Released on: 1984-02-07
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• 336 pages

The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)

The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
Aeschylus (Author), Philip Vellacott (Translator, Introduction)
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‘Anger still unreconciled
Poisoning a house’s life
With darkness, treachery and strife’ (47

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 discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife’s infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra’s crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies’ law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.

Philip Vellacott’s verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.

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• Brand: Penguin Group USA
• Published on: 1956-12-30
• Released on: 1956-12-30
• Original language: English
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• 208 pages

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books Classics)

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books Classics)
Euripides (Author), Anne Carson (Translator, Introduction)
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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 and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless–women and children, slaves and barbarians–for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies.

Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”

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• Published on: 2008-09-16
• Released on: 2008-09-16
• Original language: English
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• 312 pages

Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King
by Sophocles (Author), Michael Sheen (Narrator), full cast (Narrator)
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Four Comedies : The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics)

Four Comedies : The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics)
Plautus (Author), Erich Segal (Translator)
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Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humor, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, making these the most readable and actable versions available. This volume includes, The Braggart Soldier, e Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, and The Pot of Gold.

• Rank: #52543 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Plautus: Stichus. Trinummus (Three Bob Day). Truculentus. The Tale of a Travelling Bag. Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 328)

Plautus: Stichus. Trinummus (Three Bob Day). Truculentus. The Tale of a Travelling Bag. Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 328)
Plautus (Author), Paul Nixon (Translator)

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Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.

Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300–250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225–185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue (Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus); of intrigue with a recognition theme (The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio); plays which develop character (The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the Menaechmi; caused on purpose as in Amphitryon); plays of domestic life (The Merchant, Casina, both unpleasant; Trinummus, Stichus, both pleasant).

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

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• Published on: 1938-01-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 6.69" h x 1.02" w x 4.33" l, .77 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Hesiod's Theogony and Works & Days (Focus Classical Library)

Hesiod's Theogony and Works & Days (Focus Classical Library)
Hesiod (Author), Stephanie Nelson (Editor)
(1)

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Greek poet Hesiod took many lines of thought and knowledge myth, fable, personal experience, practical understanding and wove them into one great whole. He did as much with the origins of the Greek gods in the Theogony, and then did the same in creating his manual of moral and practical advice, Works and Days. Here, Stephanie Nelson s translation of Works and Days is paired with Richard S. Caldwell s take on the Theogony. Along with introductory essays, these comprehensible versions of Hesiod s two best-known poems make it easy for readers to see why Hesiod s writings continue to resound through the ages

• Rank: #77956 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Greek Tragedies, Volume 1

Greek Tragedies, Volume 1
David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor)
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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 authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

• Rank: #46576 in Books
• Published on: 1992-02-24
• Original language: English
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• 300 pages

Birds and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

Birds and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
Aristophanes (Author), Stephen Halliwell (Translator)
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This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theater of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and encompass the whole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. This edition includes a substantial general introduction and introductory essays for each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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• Published on: 2009-01-15
• Original language: English
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• 384 pages

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Sophocles (Author), Paul Roche (Translator)
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Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder.

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• Published on: 1996-05-01
• Released on: 1996-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .63" w x 5.51" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Plautus: Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives (Loeb Classical Library) (Volume I) (English and Latin Edition)

Plautus: Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives (Loeb Classical Library) (Volume I) (English and Latin Edition)
Plautus (Author), Paul Nixon (Translator)
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Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.

Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300–250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225–185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue (Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus); of intrigue with a recognition theme (The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio); plays which develop character (The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the Menaechmi; caused on purpose as in Amphitryon); plays of domestic life (The Merchant, Casina, both unpleasant; Trinummus, Stichus, both pleasant).

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

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• Published on: 1916-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.69" h x 1.10" w x 4.33" l, .79 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 592 pages

Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Euripides (Author), Thomas Sleigh (Translator), Christian Wolff (Introduction)
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In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order. Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power.
Depicting Herakles slowly going mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus, this play continues to haunt and inspire readers. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery, and in his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children and is eventually exiled, by his own accord, to Athens. This new volume includes a fresh translation, an updated introduction, detailed notes on the text, and a thorough glossary.

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• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
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• 128 pages

Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 4)

Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 4)
Euripides (Author), David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor, Introduction), William Arrowsmith (Translator, Introduction), Witter Bynner (Translator)
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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 million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

• Rank: #377659 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-15
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 270 pages

Clouds / the Pot of Gold: The Clouds : The Pot of Gold (Crofts Classics)

Clouds / the Pot of Gold: The Clouds : The Pot of Gold (Crofts Classics)
Aristophanes (Author), Plautus (Author), Peter D. Arnott (Editor)

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Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this edition of Aristophanes: The Clouds and Plautus: The Pot of Gold for performance and study is annotated and includes an introduction that discusses both Greek Old Comedy and New Comedy through imitation and translation into Latin. Also included are a list of the principal dates in the lives of Aristophanes and Plautus as well as a selected bibliography.

• Rank: #2362 in Books
• Published on: 1986-06-02
• Original language: Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.48" h x .31" w x 4.76" l, .29 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 102 pages

Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 5)

Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 5)
Euripides (Author), David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor, Translator), William Arrowsmith (Translator), John Frederick Nims (Translator), Ronald Frederick Willetts (Translator)
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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 million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.
"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 deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."—Times Education Supplement

"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian

"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."—Commonweal

"Grene is one of the great translators."—Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."—Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review

• Rank: #69043 in Books
• Published on: 1992-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.03" h x .55" w x 5.20" l, .62 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 255 pages