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Aeschylus I: Oresteia
by Aeschylus

ISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"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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Aeschylus II
by David Grene, Richmond Lattimor

ISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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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.

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.
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Aeschylus's the Oresteia
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0877549036 (0-87754-903-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemmon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides
by Aeschylus

ISBN 0812234162 (0-8122-3416-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides
by David R. Slavitt

ISBN 081221627X (0-8122-1627-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliad
by Allardyce Nicoll, George Chapman

ISBN 0691002363 (0-691-00236-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."
This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: A Centennial Edition
by Richmond Lattimore, David Grene

ISBN 0226307638 (0-226-30763-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Four Volume set in slip case Vol 1 Aeschylus Vol 2 Sophocles Vol 3 &4 Euripides Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore ISBN 0226307638 [via]
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Electra and Other Plays
by E.F. Watling, Sophocles

ISBN 0140440283 (0-14-044028-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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All three of the great tragic poets of ancient greece produced plays about the electra myth. If sophocles (496-406 b.c.) lacks the archaic grandeur of aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of euripides, his version is supreme for its power and humanity [via]
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Homer in English
by Homer, George Steiner, Aminadav Dykman

ISBN 0140446214 (0-14-044621-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This text is one of the volumes in the "New Poets in Translation" series. It focuses on the epic poems of Homer, one of the most translated authors in literature. [via]
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Homer's Iliad
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad "represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality." The piece is the focus of this title in our Bloom's Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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The Iliad
by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox

ISBN 0140275363 (0-14-027536-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture.
The story of the Iliad centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. The Iliad is the first of the great tragedies.

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The Iliad
by Peter Jones, Peter V. Jones, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. Rieu, Homer

ISBN 0140447946 (0-14-044794-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Newly updated by D. C. H. Rieu, son of E. V. Rieu

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.

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The Iliad
by Richmond Lattimore, Homer

ISBN 0226469379 (0-226-46937-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translationthe gold standard for generations of students and general readers.

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first centurywhile leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verseswith their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greekremain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.

The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes livedand thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.
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The Iliad
by Robert Fitzgerald, Homer

ISBN 0385059418 (0-385-05941-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. [via]
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Iliad of Homer
by Homer, Richmond Lattimore

ISBN 0226469409 (0-226-46940-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with the Iliad, and in his translation he successfully found a style that answers the sublimity and grace of Homer. Steven Shankman provides scholarly critical apparatus for this Penguin English Poets edition, which is based on the 1743 edition that contains the poet's final revisions. Pope's Preface and the three indexes are also included. Most importantly, this edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to observe one poetic genius illuminate the work of another. [via]
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Iliad of Homer
by Barbara Leonie Picard

ISBN 0192741470 (0-19-274147-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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"Odysseus and his men put out to sea in twelve ships of fifty oars, their white sails unfurled and their blue-painted prows thrusting through the waves as the wind filled the sails: nigh on sixty men on board each ship. And the heart of every man was happy as he thought how at last, after ten weary years of battle, he would once again see Ithaca, which was his home."
Skillfully retold as clear, unencumbered narratives while retaining the dignity and excitment of Homer's original epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey were critically acclaimed as highly accessible editions for all ages when first published by Oxford in 1952. Now we are proud to reissue them in handsome paperback editions as part of the Oxford Myths and Legends series.
The Iliad describes the last years of the war between the Trojans and the Greeks with tales of heroes, battles, quarrels, and especially of Achilles--the greatest warrior among all the Greeks. The Odyssey continues the story after the fall of Troy, as Odysseus begins his exciting journey home. His voyage to Circe's enchanted island, down to the underworld, to the land of the Sirens, and finally home to patient Penelope remains one of the best adventure stories ever told.
All of the pride, daring, love, and revenge of these two enduring tales is captured in a way that spans ages and levels of familiarity with the works. Adults will find them the perfect complement to the originals for clarification or for pure reading pleasure. Younger children will love hearing the daring adventures read aloud, and young adults will appreciate a text that does not talk down to them, but is clear, understandable, and enjoyable. Joan Kiddell-Monroe's exquisite black and white illustrations blend a contemporary style with the classical and add to the timeless appeal of the stories.
Homer's great epics are brought to life in an immediate and engaging way for every member of the family and for all ages of students of classical literature in these two classic reissues. [via]
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Iliad of Homer
by Ennis Rees, Homer

ISBN 0195068262 (0-19-506826-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. [via]
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Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version
by I.A. Richards

ISBN 0393001016 (0-393-00101-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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According to legend, in ancient times Agamemnon led the Greeks into war with the city of Troy to recapture the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta.
The Iliad, the heroic Greek epic called by I. A. Richards "the most influential poem in the Western tradition," describes what happens toward the end of the Trojan War, when a quarrel between Agamemnon and the Greek hero Achilles sets in motion tragic events that bring the war to its conclusion.

This edition of the Iliad, abridged and translated by the noted critic and translator I. A. Richards, has made this classic work of literature available to modern readers since 1958 in a remarkably readable version. Mr. Richards has cut many passages that are not essential to the storyline and has omitted books 2, 10, 13, and 17. Removing the stylized decoration that can hinder a nonspecialist reader, he makes the language of the poem clearly accessible, and his narrative condensation allows the action to stand out boldly. [via]
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The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XII
by Homer, Malcolm M. Willcock

ISBN 0333157389 (0-333-15738-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Education

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The Iliad: The Epic Story of Troy
by Robert Fagles

ISBN 0140997083 (0-14-099708-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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The Iliad/Books Xiii-Xxiv
by Homer

ISBN 0674991893 (0-674-99189-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Oedipus
by Menelaos Stephanides, Yannis Stephanides, Bruce Walter

ISBN 9604250744 (960-425-074-4)
Softcover, Sigma Pubns F & D Stephanides O E

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Oedipus Cycle
by Dudley Fitts

ISBN 0156838389 (0-15-683838-9)
Softcover, Harcourt

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English versions of Sophocles three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
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The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
by Sophocles

ISBN 015602764X (0-15-602764-X)
Softcover, Harcourt

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English versions of Sophocles three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
by Paul Roche

ISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by Sophocles, Robert Bagg, Mary Bagg

ISBN 1558494545 (1-55849-454-5)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder. [via]
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Oedipus Trilogy: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
by Stephen Spender

ISBN 0394544838 (0-394-54483-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Oresteia
by Aeschylus, George Derwent Thomson, Richard Seaford

ISBN 1400041929 (1-4000-4192-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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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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The Oresteia
by Michael Ewans

ISBN 0460875485 (0-460-87548-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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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 Oresteia
by Ted Hughes, Aeschylus

ISBN 0374227217 (0-374-22721-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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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,
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.

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]
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus
by Aeschylus, Robert Lowell

ISBN 0374227233 (0-374-22723-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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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 Furies
by Aeschylus, E. D. A. Morshead

ISBN 0486292428 (0-486-29242-8)
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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 Trilogy
by Aeschylus

ISBN 0140440674 (0-14-044067-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Anger still unreconciled
Poisoning a houses life
With darkness, treachery and strife (47
Aeschylus (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 Eumenides
by Paul Roche, Aeschylus

ISBN 0452011663 (0-452-01166-3)
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides
by Aeschylus

ISBN 0451628195 (0-451-62819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The Orestia
by Aeschylus

ISBN 1419176331 (1-4191-7633-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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The Republic
by Plato

ISBN 1593080972 (1-59308-097-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and theology. The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work. [via]
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Republic of Plato
by Thomas Taylor

ISBN 1564590240 (1-56459-024-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This is Thomas Taylor's adept translation of Plato's Republic. Plato's "crowning achievement of art and philosophy." "The idea that runs through the Republic is that the individual presents almost the same features and qualties as society, on a smaller scale, and in his argument Plato first considers the state and thence makes his deductions as to the individual." "Besides the enduring value of the Republic as a work of art, its philosophical and ethical teaching is of particular interest in the present disordered condition of social and speculative ideas. [via]
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The Serpent Son: Aeschylus, Oresteia
by Aeschylus, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael

ISBN 0521220602 (0-521-22060-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press

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Sophocles: Antigone, the Women of Trachis, Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones

ISBN 0674995589 (0-674-99558-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human normbut who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).
Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragmentsranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchersare collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
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Sophocles: Fragments
by Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones

ISBN 0674995325 (0-674-99532-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), 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 wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
Many of the Sophoclean fragments were preserved by quotation in other authors; others, some of considerable size, are known to us from papyri discovered during the past century. Among the lost plays of which we have large fragments, The Searchers shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo; Inachus portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and Niobe tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic legend.
This is the final volume of Lloyd-Jones's new Loeb Classical Library edition of Sophocles. In volumes I and II he gives a faithful and very skilful translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, and Electra. Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, and Philoctetes.
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by Sophocles, David Greene, Richard Lattimore

ISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"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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Sophocles II
by Sophocles, David Greene

ISBN 0226307867 (0-226-30786-7)
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"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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Sophocles: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by David R. Slavitt, Palmer Bovie

ISBN 0812216660 (0-8122-1666-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Arist [via]
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Sophocles: The Theban Plays ; Onatigone/King Oidipous/Oidipous at Colonus
by Ruby Blondell

ISBN 1585100374 (1-58510-037-4)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co

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This anthology includes English translations of three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous, and Oidipous at Colonus. The trilogy includes an introductory essay on Sophocles life, ancient theatre, and the mythic and religious background of the plays. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a single play edition. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
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Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy
by Sophocles, Gerald Lee Ratliff

ISBN 0812034309 (0-8120-3430-9)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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A guide to reading the Oedipus trilogy with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791040992 (0-7910-4099-2)
Softcover, Facts on File

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Theban Plays
by Sophocles, E.F. Watling

ISBN 0140440038 (0-14-044003-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles' 3-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus's search for the truth and its tragic results, remains essential reading for English and classical studies majors as well as for all students of Western civilization. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
by Sophocles, David Grene

ISBN 0679431322 (0-679-43132-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement.

Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle to Coleridge as the perfect exemplar of the art of tragedy, in its unforgettable portrayal of a mans failed attempt to escape his fate. In Oedipus at Colonus, the blind king finds his final release from the sufferings the gods have brought upon him, and Antigone completes the downfall of the House of Cadmus through the actions of Oedipuss magnificent and uncompromising daughter defending her ideals to the death. All three of The Theban Plays, while separate, self-contained dramas, draw from the same rich well of myth and showcase Sophocles enduring power.

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The Three Theban Plays
by Robert Fagles, Sophocles, Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox

ISBN 0140444254 (0-14-044425-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. [via]
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The Three Theban Plays
by Sophocles, Theodore Howard Banks

ISBN 0195010590 (0-19-501059-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. [via]
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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Your Mirror to My Times: The Selected Autobiographies and Impressions of Ford Madox Ford
by Ford Madox Ford

ISBN 0030859719 (0-03-085971-9)
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Description: xxi, 392 p. Illus. 24 cm. Subjects: Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. Authors, English--20th century--Biography. Editors--Great Britain--Biography. [via]
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LA Republica

ISBN 8420636738 (84-206-3673-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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En el período que transcurrió desde su infancia hasta su muerte, PLATÓN (ca. 428-ca. 347 a.C.) conoció la decadencia de la grandeza ateniense, jalonada por numerosos y señalados episodios históricos que, junto con su reiterado fracaso político en Siracusa, influyeron poderosamente tanto en su actividad política como en su trabajo intelectual. LA REPÚBLICA presenta el modelo de ciudad donde domina la justicia frente al desorden, (*CR*)la confusión y la perversión; sin embargo, como señala Manuel Fernández-Galiano en la introducción al volumen, el diálogo no apunta a la construcción ideal de una sociedad perfecta de hombres perfectos, sino que es un «tratado de medicina política» con aplicación a los regímenes existentes en su tiempo. [via]
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