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Aeschylusby Aeschylus, Herbert Weir SmythISBN 0674991605 (0-674-99160-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus'Book summary:Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BCE), author of the first tragedies existing in European literature, was an Athenian born at Eleusis. He served at Marathon against Darius in 490, and again during Xerxes' invasion, 480479. Between 478 and 467 he visited Sicily, there composing by request Women of Aetna. At Athens he competed in production of plays more than twenty times, and was rewarded on at least thirteen occasions, becoming dominant between 500 and 458 through the splendour of his language and his dramatic conceptions and technique.
Of his total of 8090 plays seven survive complete. The Persians (472), the only surviving Greek historical drama, presents the failure of Xerxes to conquer Greece. Seven against Thebes (467) was the second play of its trilogy of related plays on the evil fate of the Theban House. Polyneices tries to regain Thebes from his brother Eteocles; both are killed. In Suppliant Maidens, the first in a trilogy, the daughters of Danaus arrive with him at Argos, whose King and people save them from the wooing of the sons of their uncle Aegyptus. In Prometheus Bound, first or second play of its trilogy about Prometheus, he is nailed to a crag, by order of Zeus, for stealing fire from heaven for men. Defiant after visitors' sympathy and despite advice, he descends in lightning and thunder to Hell. The Oresteia (458), on the House of Atreus, is the only Greek trilogy surviving complete. In Agamemnon, the King returns from Troy, and is murdered by his wife Clytaemnestra. In Libation-Bearers, Orestes with his sister avenges their father Agamemnon's death by counter-murder. In Eumenides, Orestes, harassed by avenging Furies, is arraigned by them at Athens for matricide. Tried by a court set up by Athena, he is absolved, but the Furies are pacified.
We publish in Volume I four plays; and in Volume II the Oresteia and some fragments of lost plays.
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Aeschylusby John HeringtonISBN 0300036434 (0-300-03643-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Aeschylus: Agamemnonby Aeschylus, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, P. E. Easterling, Philip De MayISBN 0521010756 (0-521-01075-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Aeschylus Agamemnonby Denys Lionel Page, Denniston J.D.ISBN 0198721307 (0-19-872130-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aeschylus Agamemnonby Eduard FraenkelISBN 0198141017 (0-19-814101-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus Agamemnon'Book summary:Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including0 suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Agamemnon is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Agamemnon is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America. [via]
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Aeschylus: Eumenidesby Alan H. SommersteinISBN 0521284309 (0-521-28430-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Aeschylus I: Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus I: Oresteia'Book summary:"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 [via]More editions of Aeschylus I: Oresteia:
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Aeschylus IIby AeschylusISBN 0674991613 (0-674-99161-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BCE), author of the first tragedies existing in European literature, was an Athenian born at Eleusis. He served at Marathon against Darius in 490, and again during Xerxes' invasion, 480479. Between 478 and 467 he visited Sicily, there composing by request Women of Aetna. At Athens he competed in production of plays more than twenty times, and was rewarded on at least thirteen occasions, becoming dominant between 500 and 458 through the splendour of his language and his dramatic conceptions and technique.
Of his total of 8090 plays seven survive complete. The Persians (472), the only surviving Greek historical drama, presents the failure of Xerxes to conquer Greece. Seven against Thebes (467) was the second play of its trilogy of related plays on the evil fate of the Theban House. Polyneices tries to regain Thebes from his brother Eteocles; both are killed. In Suppliant Maidens, the first in a trilogy, the daughters of Danaus arrive with him at Argos, whose King and people save them from the wooing of the sons of their uncle Aegyptus. In Prometheus Bound, first or second play of its trilogy about Prometheus, he is nailed to a crag, by order of Zeus, for stealing fire from heaven for men. Defiant after visitors' sympathy and despite advice, he descends in lightning and thunder to Hell. The Oresteia (458), on the House of Atreus, is the only Greek trilogy surviving complete. In Agamemnon, the King returns from Troy, and is murdered by his wife Clytaemnestra. In Libation-Bearers, Orestes with his sister avenges their father Agamemnon's death by counter-murder. In Eumenides, Orestes, harassed by avenging Furies, is arraigned by them at Athens for matricide. Tried by a court set up by Athena, he is absolved, but the Furies are pacified.
We publish in Volume I four plays; and in Volume II the Oresteia and some fragments of lost plays.
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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond LattimorISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
Aeschylus Oresteia: A Literary Commentaryby D.J ConachterISBN 0802067476 (0-8020-6747-6)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Aeschylus: Prometheus Boundby Mark GriffithISBN 0521270111 (0-521-27011-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound'Book summary:The myth of fire stolen from the gods appears in many pre-industrial societies. In Greek culture Prometheus the fire-stealer figures prominently in the poems of Hesiod, but in Prometheus Bound Hesiod's morality tale has been transformed into a drama of tragic tone and proportions. In the introduction, Mark Griffith examines how the dramatist has achieved this transformation, looking at the play from all angles - plot and characters, dramatic technique, style and metre. He includes a short section on the production of the play and on the questions of authenticity and date. The commentary guides the reader through problems of language, metre and content. An important feature of this volume is the appendix, which gathers together the existing fragments of the other two plays in the supposed Prometheus trilogy, quoting them in full in the original language and in translation, with short accompanying commentary. This is suitable for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools. It also deserves the serious attention of scholars. The introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and will interest students of drama and literature in other cultures too. [via]
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Aeschylus: Prometheus Boundby Paul RocheISBN 0865162387 (0-86516-238-7)
Softcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound'Book summary:In his Prometheus Bound, the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus presents the dramatic conflict between the free spirit of human progress and the limitations set by divine law. Prometheus was chained to a mountain, sentenced to endure a hideous and eternal torture for wresting fire from the gods to bring it to earth. His story has become a universal symbol for human strength of character, achievement, and enlightenment. Roche's translation captures the force, the beauty and the nobility of the original play.
Roche's moving translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (3rd reprint of the 1962 edition) is enhanced by:
- Introduction setting the literary and historical context of the play.
- Notes on Production
- An Informal Survey on the Greek Theater
- Glossary of Names and Places
- 10 original illustrations by KapheimAlso available:
Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes - ISBN 0865163375
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Aeschylus : The Persiansby Aeschylus, Edith HallISBN 0856685976 (0-85668-597-6)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips
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Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216717 (0-8122-1671-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.
Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William Matthews (Prometheus Bound).More editions of Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound:
Aeschylus Two: Four Tragedies Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians, the Suppliant Maidensby AeschylusISBN 0226307794 (0-226-30779-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: A Literary Commentaryby D.J. ConacherISBN 0802064167 (0-8020-6416-7)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Aeschylus's the Oresteiaby Harold BloomISBN 0877549036 (0-87754-903-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemmon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby AeschylusISBN 0812234162 (0-8122-3416-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby David R. SlavittISBN 081221627X (0-8122-1627-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Aeschylus, 2: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812234650 (0-8122-3465-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Aeschylus, the Creator of Tragedyby Gilbert MurrayISBN 0837199190 (0-8371-9919-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press, Evesham, The
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Agamemnonby Aeschylus, Peter Vincent ArceseISBN 0931642345 (0-931642-34-5)
Hardcover, Lintel
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agamemnon'Book summary:The Agamemnon is the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy. It presents the return of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War, as his homecoming gives way to the terrors of an ancient curse and family vengeance. Filled with accounts of war, sacrifices, confessions, prophecies, and prayers, it is a drama which begins both a brutal and compassionate journey toward redefining justice. Through the use of syllabic verse, this new translation maintains an organic link with the original Greek text, while recreating the music of the poetry in contemporary English. [via]
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An Anthology of Greek Dramaby Charles Alexander RobinsonISBN 0030094151 (0-03-009415-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Bedford Introduction to Dramaby Lee A. JacobusISBN 0312255438 (0-312-25543-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Choephoriby Garvie AeschylusISBN 019872134X (0-19-872134-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Classical Tragedy: Greek and Roman 8 Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations Accompanied by Critical Essaysby Robert W. CorriganISBN 1557830460 (1-55783-046-0)
Softcover, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Tragedy: Greek and Roman 8 Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations Accompanied by Critical Essays'Book summary:(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca. [via]
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A Commentary on the Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylusby James HoganISBN 0226348431 (0-226-34843-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Complete Greek Tragediesby EuripideISBN 0226307727 (0-226-30772-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylusby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307646 (0-226-30764-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus:
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Eight Great Tragediesby Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, Morton BermanISBN 0452011728 (0-452-01172-8)
Softcover, Meridian Books
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Eight Great Tragedies: Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Hippolytus, King Lear, Ghosts, Miss Julie, On Bailles Strand, Desire under the Elmsby Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William BurtoISBN 0451626788 (0-451-62678-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Eumenidesby Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0132918560 (0-13-291856-0)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eumenides'Book summary:Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Of all Athenian tragic dramas, Eumenides is most consciously designed to be relevant to the situation of the Athenian state at the time of its performance (458 B.C.) and seems to have contained daring innovations both in technique and in ideas. The introduction and commentary to this edition seek to bring out how Aeschylus shaped to his purpose the legends he inherited, and ended the tragic story of Agamemnon's family in a celebration of Athenian civic unity and justice. The commentary also pays attention to the linguistic, metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader. [via]
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Four Plays Of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus, E. D. A. MorsheadISBN 1419150014 (1-4191-5001-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Mortimer Jerome Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. GoetzISBN 0852295316 (0-85229-531-6)
Hardcover, Encyclopaedia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:There is no better way to own and appreciate the world's greatest written works. Great Books of the Western World is one of the most acclaimed publishing feats of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the newest masterpieces of the 20th century, Great Books traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. 60 volumes Individual Volume Size: 9 1/2" H x 1"-2" W (Across Spine) x 6 1/2" D Overall Width of Set: 65"(5'5") Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas - [via]
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307751 (0-226-30775-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Dramaby WorthenISBN 0155020870 (0-15-502087-0)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Libation Bearersby Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0135353777 (0-13-535377-7)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall
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The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylusby Aeschylus, John Stuart BlackieISBN 1419141678 (1-4191-4167-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greeceby Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-NaquetISBN 0942299191 (0-942299-19-1)
Softcover, Zone Books
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On Aristotle and Greek Tragedyby John JonesISBN 0804710929 (0-8047-1092-9)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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On the Hymn to Zeus in Aeschylus' Agamemnonby Peter M. SmithISBN 089130388X (0-89130-388-X)
Softcover, Amer Philosophical Assn
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The Oresteiaby Aeschylus, George Derwent Thomson, Richard SeafordISBN 1400041929 (1-4000-4192-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary: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. [via]
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Hardcover, Wildwood House - Oresteia: ISBN 0715613677 (0-7156-1367-7)
Hardcover, Duckworth & Company, Limited, Gerald - The Oresteia: ISBN 0860361780 (0-86036-178-0)
Hardcover, Rex Collings - The Oresteia: ISBN 1400041929 (1-4000-4192-9)
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The Oresteiaby Michael EwansISBN 0460875485 (0-460-87548-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Aeschylus scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, plot summary, selected criticism and chronology of Aeschylus's life and times. [via]
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The Oresteiaby Ted Hughes, AeschylusISBN 0374227217 (0-374-22721-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:During the final years of his life, Ted Hughes poured much of his energy into translating the classics. Given the triumph of the Birthday Letters, some readers may regret this canonical moonlighting. Yet it's hard to feel shortchanged by the work Hughes did produce: his version of Ovid was a brilliant blend of Latinate suavity and contemporary grit, and he negotiated the alexandrines of Racine's Phèdre with spectacular ease. Now we have his translation of the Oresteia, which was commissioned by the Royal National Theater in the late 1990s. Has Hughes done right by Aeschylus?
The answer would have to be yes--with a couple of qualifications. Hughes made no secret of the fact that he was after an "acting version" of the trilogy, one that would convey the power of Aeschylus's classic bloodbath to a modern audience. He has therefore taken more liberties with the text than we might expect, chopping and channeling the original to fit his own conception. Perhaps the result is closer to what Robert Lowell called an "imitation"--an attempt to capture the work's spirit without precisely mimicking its form. In any case, this Oresteia succeeds on both counts. The darkness and destructive movement of the original remain intact in the Hughes's free-verse lines:
The men of Troy are a litter of corpses,
Yet Hughes has also left his elemental imprint on the play. Always drawn to violence in his own verse--particularly the impersonal assault and battery of the natural world--he has made his Oresteia more bloody-minded than the original (and that's saying something). There's nothing sensationalistic about this extra quantum of wrack and ruin. It's merely Hughes's personal response to Aeschylus--and a necessary preparation, perhaps, for Athena's clarifying cameo at the end of The Eumenides: "Let your rage pass into understanding / As into the coloured clouds of a sunset, / Promising a fair tomorrow. / Do not let it fall / As a rain of sterility and anguish / On Attica." Her plea for conciliation is as powerful as the horrors that have preceded it, which may (to tread on some rather thin biographical ice) reflect the poet's own final impulses. In any case, this is passionate, memorable, deeply human poetry--i.e., what becomes a classic most. --Anita Urquhart [via]
Rubbish-heaps of corpses. Troy on its hill
Cascades with blood, as under a downpour
Of bodies from the heavens,
Shattered and entangled with each other
In every passage--mutilations,
Amputations, eviscerations. The women
Are kneeling, shoulders heaving, with eyes hidden,
Over what were yesterday
Husbands, fathers, sons.
They labour at a grief that is already
The first labour of slaves.
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The Oresteia of Aeschylusby Aeschylus, Robert LowellISBN 0374227233 (0-374-22723-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia of Aeschylus'Book summary:Robert Lowell's translation of "The Oreestia" - a beautiful translation. Direct and easily understood by a theatrical audience at first hearing. [via]
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The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furiesby Aeschylus, E. D. A. MorsheadISBN 0486292428 (0-486-29242-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies'Book summary:Classic trilogy by great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. [via]
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The Oresteian Trilogyby AeschylusISBN 0140440674 (0-14-044067-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteian Trilogy'Book summary:Anger still unreconciled[via]
Poisoning a houses life
With darkness, treachery and strife (47Aeschylus (525c.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 heros discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wifes infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestras 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 Vellacotts 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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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; the Libation Bearers; the Eumenidesby Paul Roche, AeschylusISBN 0452011663 (0-452-01166-3)
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby AeschylusISBN 0451628195 (0-451-62819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Orestiaby AeschylusISBN 1419176331 (1-4191-7633-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orestia'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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Persiansby AeschylusISBN 1419177060 (1-4191-7706-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persians'Book summary:The mighty Xerxes from Darius sprung, The stream of whose rich blood flows in our veins, Leads against Greece; whether his arrowy shower Shot from the strong-braced bow, or the huge spear High brandish'd, in the deathful field prevails. [via]
Plays: One/Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic RaphaelISBN 0413651908 (0-413-65190-8)
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Prometheus Boundby AeschylusISBN 1419143220 (1-4191-4322-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prometheus Bound'Book summary: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 as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus Bound as part of a tragic trilogy, and this translation is unique in including the extant fragments of the companion plays. [via]
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Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persiansby Philip VellacottISBN 0140441123 (0-14-044112-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persians'Book summary:[via]Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods anger you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal menAeschylus (525456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.
Philip Vellacotts evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.
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Reading Greek Tragedyby Simon GoldhillISBN 0521315794 (0-521-31579-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Greek Tragedy'Book summary:This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the masterpieces of Athenian drama in the light of contemporary critical controversies in such a way as to enable the student or scholar not only to understand and appreciate the texts of the most commonly read plays, but also to evaluate and utilize the range of approaches to the problems of ancient drama. [via]
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The Serpent Son: Aeschylus, Oresteiaby Aeschylus, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic RaphaelISBN 0521220602 (0-521-22060-2)
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Seven Against Thebesby Aeschylus, Anthony Hecht, Helen H. BaconISBN 0195070070 (0-19-507007-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Against Thebes'Book summary:Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and his sons. After the city of Thebes has banished Oedipus, the former ruler's sons vie for the crown. The victor, Eteocles, expels his brother, Polyneices, who then recruits 7 champions to lead an assault on Thebes, with a tragic results.[via]More editions of Seven Against Thebes:
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Seven Against Thebes = Septem Contra Thebasby Aeschylus, G.O. HutchinsonISBN 0198149999 (0-19-814999-9)
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:"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 [via]
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Suppliants and Other Dramas: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Fragments With Prometheus Bound Traditionally Ascribed to Aischylosby Aeschylus, Michael LewisISBN 0460877550 (0-460-87755-0)
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Tragedias Completasby Esquilo, Jose Alsina ClotaISBN 8437604060 (84-376-0406-0)
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Tragedias Completasby EsquiloISBN 9583004219 (958-30-0421-9)
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