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The Greek Plays

Author : Sophocles,Aeschylus,Euripides
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812983098

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A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James Romm The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world. Not only is the influence of Greek drama palpable in everything from Shakespeare to modern television, the insights contained in Greek tragedy have shaped our perceptions of the nature of human life. Poets, philosophers, and politicians have long borrowed and adapted the ideas and language of Greek drama to help them make sense of their own times. This exciting curated anthology features a cross section of the most popular—and most widely taught—plays in the Greek canon. Fresh translations into contemporary English breathe new life into the texts while capturing, as faithfully as possible, their original meaning. This outstanding collection also offers short biographies of the playwrights, enlightening and clarifying introductions to the plays, and helpful annotations at the bottom of each page. Appendices by prominent classicists on such topics as “Greek Drama and Politics,” “The Theater of Dionysus,” and “Plato and Aristotle on Tragedy” give the reader a rich contextual background. A detailed time line of the dramas, as well as a list of adaptations of Greek drama to literature, stage, and film from the time of Seneca to the present, helps chart the history of Greek tragedy and illustrate its influence on our culture from the Roman Empire to the present day. With a veritable who’s who of today’s most renowned and distinguished classical translators, The Greek Plays is certain to be the definitive text for years to come. Praise for The Greek Plays “Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm deftly have gathered strong new translations from Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Emily Wilson, as well as from Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm themselves. There is a freshness and pungency in these new translations that should last a long time. I admire also the introductions to the plays and the biographies and annotations provided. Closing essays by five distinguished classicists—the brilliant Daniel Mendelsohn and the equally skilled David Rosenbloom, Joshua Billings, Mary-Kay Gamel, and Gregory Hays—all enlightened me. This seems to me a helpful light into our gathering darkness.”—Harold Bloom

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547417255

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Four Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf

"Four Plays of Aeschylus" contains four plays by Aeschylus, the Greek playwright and tragedian, often considered the father of tragedy. He was the reformer of the ancient Greek theatre and the author of more than 100 plays, yet only seven were preserved until now. Four of them, "The Suppliant Maidens," "The Persians," "The Seven Against Thebes," and "The Prometheus Bound," are presented in this book.

The Greek Plays

Author : Sophocles,Aeschylus,Euripides
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812983098

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The Greek Plays by Sophocles,Aeschylus,Euripides Pdf

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James Romm The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world. Not only is the influence of Greek drama palpable in everything from Shakespeare to modern television, the insights contained in Greek tragedy have shaped our perceptions of the nature of human life. Poets, philosophers, and politicians have long borrowed and adapted the ideas and language of Greek drama to help them make sense of their own times. This exciting curated anthology features a cross section of the most popular—and most widely taught—plays in the Greek canon. Fresh translations into contemporary English breathe new life into the texts while capturing, as faithfully as possible, their original meaning. This outstanding collection also offers short biographies of the playwrights, enlightening and clarifying introductions to the plays, and helpful annotations at the bottom of each page. Appendices by prominent classicists on such topics as “Greek Drama and Politics,” “The Theater of Dionysus,” and “Plato and Aristotle on Tragedy” give the reader a rich contextual background. A detailed time line of the dramas, as well as a list of adaptations of Greek drama to literature, stage, and film from the time of Seneca to the present, helps chart the history of Greek tragedy and illustrate its influence on our culture from the Roman Empire to the present day. With a veritable who’s who of today’s most renowned and distinguished classical translators, The Greek Plays is certain to be the definitive text for years to come. Praise for The Greek Plays “Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm deftly have gathered strong new translations from Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Emily Wilson, as well as from Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm themselves. There is a freshness and pungency in these new translations that should last a long time. I admire also the introductions to the plays and the biographies and annotations provided. Closing essays by five distinguished classicists—the brilliant Daniel Mendelsohn and the equally skilled David Rosenbloom, Joshua Billings, Mary-Kay Gamel, and Gregory Hays—all enlightened me. This seems to me a helpful light into our gathering darkness.”—Harold Bloom

The Plays of Aeschylus

Author : A. F. Garvie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474233293

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This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further reading, ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525/524 to 465/455. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the subject of his Persians. Working in chronological order of their first production, this volume explores Persians, the earliest Greek tragedy that has come down to us; Seven against Thebes; Suppliants; and the three plays of the Oresteia trilogy: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides. The book also contains an essay on Prometheus Bound, now generally thought not to be by Aeschylus, but accepted as his in antiquity. The volume is a companion to The Plays of Euripides (by James Morwood) and The Plays of Sophocles (by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, Greek Tragedy.

The Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : UIUC:30112002619671

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The Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Robert H. Ahrens
Publisher : Arco
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : 0671008013

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The Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298872731

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The Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf

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Seven Against Thebes

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780195070071

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Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus Pdf

The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.

Greek Tragedy

Author : Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961712

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Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles Pdf

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

Aeschylus I

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226311456

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Aeschylus I by Aeschylus Pdf

The third edition of this volume includes newly revised, authoritative and compelling translations of four timeless works by the Ancient Greek tragedian. Aeschylus I contains “The Persians,” translated by Seth Benardete; “The Seven Against Thebes,” translated by David Grene; “The Suppliant Maidens,” translated by Seth Benardete; and “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene. For this edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated these translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which the renowned University of Chicago Press series is famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. The entire series has also been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written.

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539507149

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Four Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf

Four Plays of Aeschylus The Suppliant Maidens The Persians The Seven Against Thebes The Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus The surviving dramas of Aeschylus are seven in number, though he is believed to have written nearly a hundred during his life of sixty-nine years, from 525 B.C. to 456 B.C. That he fought at Marathon in 490, and at Salamis in 480 B.C. is a strongly accredited tradition, rendered almost certain by the vivid references to both battles in his play of The Persians, which was produced in 472. But his earliest extant play was, probably, not The Persians but The Suppliant Maidens-a mythical drama, the fame of which has been largely eclipsed by the historic interest of The Persians, and is undoubtedly the least known and least regarded of the seven. Its topic-the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Argos, in order to escape from a forced bridal with their first-cousins, the sons of Aegyptus-is legendary, and the lyric element predominates in the play as a whole. We must keep ourselves reminded that the ancient Athenian custom of presenting dramas in Trilogies -that is, in three consecutive plays dealing with different stages of one legend-was probably not uniform: it survives, for us, in one instance only, viz. the Orestean Trilogy, comprising the Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers, and the Eumenides, or Furies. This Trilogy is the masterpiece of the Aeschylean Drama: the four remaining plays of the poet, which are translated in this volume, are all fragments of lost Trilogies-that is to say, the plays are complete as poems, but in regard to the poet's larger design they are fragments; they once had predecessors, or sequels, of which only a few words, or lines, or short paragraphs, survive. It is not certain, but seems probable, that the earliest of these single completed plays is The Suppliant Maidens, and on that supposition it has been placed first in the present volume.

The Complete Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:apz7631:0001.001

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The Plays of Aeschylus (Classic Reprint)

Author : Aeschylus Aeschylus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0666778922

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The Plays of Aeschylus (Classic Reprint) by Aeschylus Aeschylus Pdf

Excerpt from The Plays of Aeschylus Ten years after the battle of Marathon, when Xerxes made that 1mmense preparation to revenge the defeat of his father, We find the two surviving brothers exerting their courage in the sea-fight of Salainis: here Amynias, too boldly laying hold of 'a Persian ship, had his hand lopped off with.a sabre; but jeschylus defended him, and saved his life; and, the Athenians decreed him the first ho. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women

Author : Anonim
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1958-11-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393634808

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Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women by Anonim Pdf

Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.

The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers

Author : Stratos Constantinidis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004332164

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The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers by Stratos Constantinidis Pdf

In The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays 15 scholars explore new methods and frontiers for studying and staging Aeschylus’ plays by showing the tensions between traditional scholarship and innovative analysis in reception studies and performance studies.