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Oresteia by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£10.77Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. ... -
Birds: WITH Lysistrata AND Thesmophoria by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£22.92The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
The Comedies by Terence
RRP: £11.99£8.43'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic... -
The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes by Hughes
RRP: £15.00£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527051Author HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
The Bacchae by Euripides 9780571239160
RRP: £10.99£7.32One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies - savage, comic and intensely lyrical - The Bacchae powerfully dramatises the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. The magnetic young Dionysus - icon, hedonist, god - returns... -
Aeschylus: Agamemnon by Leah Himmelhoch 9781350154902
RRP: £34.99£33.08This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play... -
Suppliant Women: "Suppliant Women", "Electra", "Heracles", "Trojan Women" by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Medea by Euripides 9780872209237
RRP: £11.99£9.52This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far,... -
Stagecraft in Euripides by Michael R. Halleran
RRP: £49.99£45.55In Stagecraft in Euripides, first published in 1985, Professor Michael Halleran examines certain aspects of the dramaturgy of the most extensively preserved Attic tragedian.Although the ancient dramatic texts do not contain performance directions, they... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans... -
Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Electra, the Trojan Women by David Grene
£12.69Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Sophocles Fabulae by Sophocles 9780198145776
£25.94This new Oxford Classical Text of Sophocles is the product of many years of close collaboration between the two editors. Most of the major difficulties of text and interpretation have been discussed in graduate seminars held in Oxford. The evidence of... -
Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780198721598
£55.96The plays of Aristophanes are the oldest comedies which still survive. They are famous for their comic characters, their fantastic plots, their farcical action, and their earthy humour. But they are also highly topical, full of comments, both comic and... -
Phèdre: Édition bilingue by Jean Racine 9780140445916
RRP: £16.00£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140445916Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition... -
Aristophanes: Wealth by Aristophanes 9780856687396
RRP: £29.99£28.65This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of Aristophanes' last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the all-too-real ills of the contemporary world in this... -
Works by Menander
RRP: £24.95£22.92The master of New Comedy.Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the end... -
Euripides Fabulae: Vol. I: (Cyc., Alc., Med., Heracl., Hip., And., Hec.) by James Diggle 9780198145943
£25.45Text, Notes and Preface in Latin.Reviews`The detailed analysis of affiliations and multifarious linkages ... is handled with unimpeachable accuracy ... and clarity of presentation. ... But we must be grateful to D. ... for providing so much of the... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100
RRP: £27.99£26.14Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes
RRP: £14.99£12.41Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a... -
Antigone by Sophocles 9780872205710
RRP: £10.99£8.76Woodruff's work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today's students and could be staged for modern audiences. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. . . . The choral odes as... -
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 9780195061659
RRP: £11.49£8.85For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come... -
A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey 9781118455128
RRP: £41.00£38.45This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama - tragedy,... -
Seneca Tragoediae by Otto Zwierlein 9780198146575
£35.61Based on a comprehensive investigation of all manuscripts and florilegia, this edition provides, for the first time, a secure reconstruction of the two hyparchetypes on which the text depends. Zwierlein demonstrates that all former manuscripts of... -
Aristophanes: Frogs by C. W. Marshall 9781350080911
RRP: £18.99£15.77A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history... -
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors by Matthew Wright 9781472567758
RRP: £26.99£23.44Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and... -
Acharnians / Knights: "Acharnians", "Knights", "Clouds", "Wasps" by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£22.92The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
Casina, The Casket Comedy, Curculio, Epidicus, The Two Menaechmuses by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: £12.99£9.09Menander (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... -
Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II: (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion) by James Diggle 9780198145905
£28.38Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion)ReviewsShould I teach Drama in Translation again, I shall be very tempted to include this! * Professor Gareth Morgan, University of Texas *Book InformationISBN 9780198145905Author James... -
Electra by Sophocles 9780195049602
£15.23Sophocles' Electra tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for the murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. In Sophocles' depiction of this myth, Electra admits that her... -
Fragments by Sophocles
RRP: £24.95£23.23Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: £11.49£10.83Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... -
Euripides: Fragments: Oedipus - Chrysippus Other Fragments: v. VIII by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£23.32Lost works by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two... -
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) by Dr Matthew Wright
RRP: £25.99£22.61The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the... -
The Woman of Andros: WITH The Self-tormentor AND The Eunuch by Terence
RRP: £24.95£22.92The Roman comic playwright "whose every word delights."Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies-first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BC-imaginatively... -
Euripides: "Medea" by Colonel William Allan 9780715631874
RRP: £22.99£22.85Euripides' "Medea" is one of the greatest and most influential Greek tragedies. This book outlines the development of the Medea myth before Euripides and explores his uniquely powerful version from various angles. There are chapters on the play's... -
Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides 9781603844604
RRP: £13.99£11.55The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright's mature vision.About the AuthorCecelia Eaton Luschnig is... -
Aristophanes: Wasps by Aristophanes 9780856682131
RRP: £27.99£26.14Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and... -
Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama by Naomi Weiss
RRP: £80.00£60.81This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in...