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  • Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles# Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles

    Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles# Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593314951Author Sophocles SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc
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  • Heracles by Euripides 9780198140603

    Heracles by Euripides 9780198140603

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    The Heracles is a challenging and problematic play especially for the student. Bond's introduction and commentary (first published in hardback in 1981) is especially welcome, since the last major edition of the play was published in 1895 and was so...
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  • Antigone: A Norton Critical Edition by Sophocles

    Antigone: A Norton Critical Edition by Sophocles

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    This Norton Critical Edition includes: * Sheila Murnaghan's celebrated new translation of Sophocles' famed Greek tragedy depicting the deadly conflict between Antigone-daughter of Oedipus-and her uncle Creon, the unyielding new ruler of Thebes. * A full...
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  • The Complete Euripides: Volume IV: Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780195373400

    The Complete Euripides: Volume IV: Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780195373400

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    Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and...
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  • The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon: Volume 2 by Lucius Annaeus        Seneca

    The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon: Volume 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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    Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE 65...
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  • Cyclops by Euripides 9780198140658

    Cyclops by Euripides 9780198140658

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    This paperback edition of Euripides' Cyclops (first published in hardback in 1984) provides an invaluable introduction to the text for students. The play itself is the only example of satyric drama to have survived complete into the modern world. This...
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  • Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles

    Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles

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    "Oedipus Tyrannos is the first Greek play many readers encounter, and this version is their ideal gateway. Emily Wilson's verse line is effortlessly graceful, whether in taut, tense dialogue exchanges or in the lyrical choral odes." -JAMES ROMM, Bard...
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  • Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes 9781631496509

    Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes 9781631496509

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    A ristophanes'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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  • The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195373288

    The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195373288

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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 series offers new translations that go...
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  • Gnostic Magic of the Runes: Gnosis, the Aeneid, and the Liberation of the Consciousness by Samael Aun Weor 9781934206294

    Gnostic Magic of the Runes: Gnosis, the Aeneid, and the Liberation of the Consciousness by Samael Aun Weor 9781934206294

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934206294Author Samael Aun WeorFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Glorian PublishingPublisher Glorian Publishing
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  • Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles

    Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles

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    Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of...
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  • Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by C. W. Marshall

    Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by C. W. Marshall

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    Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on...
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  • Medea by Seneca 9780801494321

    Medea by Seneca 9780801494321

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    Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ahl renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and...
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  • Menander in Contexts by Alan H. Sommerstein

    Menander in Contexts by Alan H. Sommerstein

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    The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander's own plays were thought to...
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  • Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus by Euripides 9780872208223

    Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus by Euripides 9780872208223

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    This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral...
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  • Theban Plays by Sophocles

    Theban Plays by Sophocles

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    This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at...
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  • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

    Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

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    This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult play is a model of clarity, intelligence, and a profound familiarity with the workings of Greek myth, Greek...
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  • The Trojan Women by Euripides 9780195179101

    The Trojan Women by Euripides 9780195179101

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    The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers...
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  • Ten Plays by Euripides 9780451527004

    Ten Plays by Euripides 9780451527004

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451527004Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc
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  • Cyclops by Euripides 9780195143034

    Cyclops by Euripides 9780195143034

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    The only extant satyr play of Euripides, the Cyclops abounds in lusty comedy and horror: Odysseus and his men, driven by storms onto Cyclops' shores, find that the Cyclops has aready enslaved a company of Greeks. When some of Odysseus' crew are seized...
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  • Euripides by Isabelle Torrance

    Euripides by Isabelle Torrance

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    Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the...
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  • All That You've Seen Here is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis; Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound by Bryan Doerries

    All That You've Seen Here is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis; Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound by Bryan Doerries

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949738Author Bryan DoerriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...
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  • Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds: 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Aristophanes 9780872203600

    Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds: 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Aristophanes 9780872203600

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    Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his CloudsThe best Greek drama we've ever seen...
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  • Roman Tragedy by Anthony J. Boyle 9780415251037

    Roman Tragedy by Anthony J. Boyle 9780415251037

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    The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome's cultural and political life.Analyzing the work of such names as Ennius, Pacuvius and...
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  • Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780872203907

    Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780872203907

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    Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the images--of the Aeschylean text. After reading this translation, one has but one further wish: to see it and hear...
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  • The Iphigenia Plays: New Verse Translations by Euripides 9780810137233

    The Iphigenia Plays: New Verse Translations by Euripides 9780810137233

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    At the heart of Iphigenia's enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and...
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  • Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women by Edith Hamilton 9780393002034

    Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women by Edith Hamilton 9780393002034

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    Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.About the AuthorEdith Hamilton (1867-1963) was made an honorary citizen of Athens because of her writings. She won the National Achievement Award and received...
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  • The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus 9780198149996

    The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus 9780198149996

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    A major edition of Aeschylus' play, the Septem Contra Thebas or Seven Against Thebes, providing a significantly new text, introduction, and full scale commentary. The book deals comprehensively with every important aspect of the play, both in detail and...
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  • Medea by Euripides 9780195145663

    Medea by Euripides 9780195145663

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    The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers...
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  • Oedipus Tyrannus by Paul Woodruff

    Oedipus Tyrannus by Paul Woodruff

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    Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate...
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  • Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice by David M. Halperin

    Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice by David M. Halperin

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    A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and...
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  • Seneca by Christopher Star 9781848858909

    Seneca by Christopher Star 9781848858909

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    After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a...
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  • Rebekah by Michael Salomon 9781495317668

    Rebekah by Michael Salomon 9781495317668

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  • Aristophanes by Aristophanes 9783337005504

    Aristophanes by Aristophanes 9783337005504

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  • Antigone: A New Translation by Sophocles 9780062132123

    Antigone: A New Translation by Sophocles 9780062132123

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  • Oedipus at Colonus by Bibliophile Pro 9781985041882

    Oedipus at Colonus by Bibliophile Pro 9781985041882

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