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  • Oresteia by Aeschylus

    Oresteia by Aeschylus

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    Orestes' 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. ...
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  • Birds: WITH Lysistrata AND Thesmophoria by Aristophanes

    Birds: WITH Lysistrata AND Thesmophoria by Aristophanes

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    The 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...
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  • The Comedies by Terence

    The Comedies by Terence

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    '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...
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  • The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes by Hughes

    The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes by Hughes

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    Apologies 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)...
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  • The Bacchae by Euripides 9780571239160

    The Bacchae by Euripides 9780571239160

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    One 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...
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  • Aeschylus: Agamemnon by Leah Himmelhoch 9781350154902

    Aeschylus: Agamemnon by Leah Himmelhoch 9781350154902

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    This 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...
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  • Suppliant Women: "Suppliant Women", "Electra", "Heracles", "Trojan Women" by Euripides

    Suppliant Women: "Suppliant Women", "Electra", "Heracles", "Trojan Women" by Euripides

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    Three 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...
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  • Medea by Euripides 9780872209237

    Medea by Euripides 9780872209237

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    This 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,...
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  • Stagecraft in Euripides by Michael R. Halleran

    Stagecraft in Euripides by Michael R. Halleran

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    In 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...
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  • Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby

    Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby

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    Three 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...
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  • Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Electra, the Trojan Women by David Grene

    Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Electra, the Trojan Women by David Grene

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    Sixty 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...
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  • Sophocles Fabulae by Sophocles 9780198145776

    Sophocles Fabulae by Sophocles 9780198145776

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    This 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...
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  • Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780198721598

    Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780198721598

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    The 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...
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  • Phèdre: Édition bilingue by Jean Racine 9780140445916

    Phèdre: Édition bilingue by Jean Racine 9780140445916

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    Apologies 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 *...
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  • Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus

    Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus

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    Dramatis 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...
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  • Aristophanes: Wealth by Aristophanes 9780856687396

    Aristophanes: Wealth by Aristophanes 9780856687396

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    This 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...
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  • Works by Menander

    Works by Menander

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    The 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...
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  • Euripides Fabulae: Vol. I: (Cyc., Alc., Med., Heracl., Hip., And., Hec.) by James Diggle 9780198145943

    Euripides Fabulae: Vol. I: (Cyc., Alc., Med., Heracl., Hip., And., Hec.) by James Diggle 9780198145943

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    Text, 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...
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  • Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100

    Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100

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    Clouds 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...
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  • Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes

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    Aristophanes'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...
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  • Antigone by Sophocles 9780872205710

    Antigone by Sophocles 9780872205710

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    Woodruff'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...
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  • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 9780195061659

    Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 9780195061659

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    For 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...
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  • A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey 9781118455128

    A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey 9781118455128

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    This 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,...
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  • Seneca Tragoediae by Otto Zwierlein 9780198146575

    Seneca Tragoediae by Otto Zwierlein 9780198146575

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    Based 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...
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  • Aristophanes: Frogs by C. W. Marshall 9781350080911

    Aristophanes: Frogs by C. W. Marshall 9781350080911

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    A 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...
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  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors by Matthew Wright 9781472567758

    The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors by Matthew Wright 9781472567758

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    Numerous 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...
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  • Acharnians / Knights: "Acharnians", "Knights", "Clouds", "Wasps" by Aristophanes

    Acharnians / Knights: "Acharnians", "Knights", "Clouds", "Wasps" by Aristophanes

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    The 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...
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  • Casina, The Casket Comedy, Curculio, Epidicus, The Two Menaechmuses by Titus Maccius Plautus

    Casina, The Casket Comedy, Curculio, Epidicus, The Two Menaechmuses by Titus Maccius Plautus

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    Funny 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...
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  • Plays and Fragments by Menander

    Plays and Fragments by Menander

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    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...
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  • Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II: (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion) by James Diggle 9780198145905

    Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II: (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion) by James Diggle 9780198145905

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    Euripides 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...
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  • Electra by Sophocles 9780195049602

    Electra by Sophocles 9780195049602

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    Sophocles' 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...
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  • Fragments by Sophocles

    Fragments by Sophocles

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    Ancient 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...
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  • The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian

    The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian

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    Based 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...
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  • Euripides: Fragments: Oedipus - Chrysippus Other Fragments: v. VIII by Euripides

    Euripides: Fragments: Oedipus - Chrysippus Other Fragments: v. VIII by Euripides

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    Lost 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...
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  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) by Dr Matthew Wright

    The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) by Dr Matthew Wright

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    The 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...
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  • The Woman of Andros: WITH The Self-tormentor AND The Eunuch by Terence

    The Woman of Andros: WITH The Self-tormentor AND The Eunuch by Terence

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    The 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...
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  • Euripides: "Medea" by Colonel William Allan 9780715631874

    Euripides: "Medea" by Colonel William Allan 9780715631874

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    Euripides' "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...
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  • Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides 9781603844604

    Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides 9781603844604

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    The 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...
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  • Aristophanes: Wasps by Aristophanes 9780856682131

    Aristophanes: Wasps by Aristophanes 9780856682131

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    Wasps 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...
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  • Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama by Naomi Weiss

    Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama by Naomi Weiss

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    This 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...
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