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Euripides: Bakkhai by Euripides 9780195125986
$78.49Euripides' Bakkhai is the staple of the canon of Greek tragedy and is required or strongly recommended reading for most undergraduate Classics majors. It also surfaces quite often in non-classics courses focusing on tragedy because its structure and... -
Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles# Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: $27.28$19.48Apologies 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 -
Heracles by Euripides 9780198140603
$72.46The 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... -
Antigone: A Norton Critical Edition by Sophocles
$28.88This 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... -
Aristophanes: Wasps by Aristophanes 9780856682131
RRP: $54.58$48.65Wasps 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... -
The Complete Euripides: Volume IV: Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780195373400
RRP: $22.41$21.12Collected 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... -
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon: Volume 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $76.05$73.38Edited 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... -
Cyclops by Euripides 9780198140658
RRP: $24.36$21.59This 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... -
Aristophanes: Wealth by Aristophanes 9780856687396
RRP: $58.48$53.39This 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... -
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes 9781631496509
RRP: $62.40$52.36A 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... -
Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles
RRP: $15.58$13.69"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... -
Gnostic Magic of the Runes: Gnosis, the Aeneid, and the Liberation of the Consciousness by Samael Aun Weor 9781934206294
RRP: $25.33$22.23Apologies 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 -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195373288
RRP: $22.41$21.78Based 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... -
Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae by Alan H. Sommerstein 9780856685590
RRP: $54.58$48.65Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own... -
Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles
RRP: $27.28$22.52Meineck 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... -
Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by C. W. Marshall
$48.07Libation 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... -
Medea by Seneca 9780801494321
RRP: $23.38$18.25Ahl'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... -
Menander in Contexts by Alan H. Sommerstein
RRP: $77.98$68.37The 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... -
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus by Euripides 9780872208223
RRP: $25.33$21.04This 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... -
Theban Plays by Sophocles
RRP: $27.28$22.52This 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... -
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
RRP: $23.38$18.56This 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... -
The Trojan Women by Euripides 9780195179101
RRP: $22.41$16.97The 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... -
Aristophanes: Peace by Alan H. Sommerstein 9780856687853
RRP: $49.32$44.19Produced in 421 B.C., Peace is, in one respect, unique among Aristophanes' plays. The typical Aristophanic plot takes its start from something that is wrong with the current state of Athenian life and which, while it may be capable in principle of being... -
Ten Plays by Euripides 9780451527004
RRP: $13.63$12.17Apologies 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 -
Cyclops by Euripides 9780195143034
RRP: $25.33$22.37The 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... -
Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture by Robert I. Lublin
RRP: $97.48$84.83Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of... -
Euripides by Isabelle Torrance
$40.05Sophocles, 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... -
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
RRP: $31.18$22.35Apologies 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 *... -
Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds: 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Aristophanes 9780872203600
RRP: $33.13$26.93Originally 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... -
Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780872203907
RRP: $27.28$22.52Meineck'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... -
Roman Tragedy by Anthony J. Boyle 9780415251037
RRP: $72.13$63.43The 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... -
The Iphigenia Plays: New Verse Translations by Euripides 9780810137233
RRP: $36.95$30.46At 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... -
Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women by Edith Hamilton 9780393002034
RRP: $36.08$30.32Three 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... -
Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae by Aristophanes 9780856687082
RRP: $49.32$44.19Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which... -
The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus 9780198149996
$72.46A 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... -
Medea by Euripides 9780195145663
RRP: $20.46$15.83The 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... -
Oedipus Tyrannus by Paul Woodruff
RRP: $21.43$17.08Peter 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... -
Aristophanes: Birds by Aristophanes 9780856682889
RRP: $58.48$53.39Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political (like... -
Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice by David M. Halperin
RRP: $74.10$57.41A 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... -
Seneca by Christopher Star 9781848858909
$48.07After 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...