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The Greek Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812983092
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Plays written by Sophocles and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Seven Plays: In English Verse

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021644299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Plays: In English Verse written by Aeschylus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seven plays by Sophocles is translated into English verse by Lewis Campbell. These plays, which include Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Electra, are considered to be masterpieces of the ancient Greek theatre. Campbell's translation is faithful to the original works while also being accessible to modern readers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Persians and Other Plays

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141955899
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Persians and Other Plays written by Aeschylus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. 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. Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while The Suppliants relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.

Three Other Theban Plays

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624664733
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Three Other Theban Plays written by Aeschylus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Greek poets, one explored in a now lost epic cycle, as well as several other surviving tragedies. With a rich Introduction that sets three of these plays within the larger contexts of Theban legend and of Greek tragedy in performance, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig’s annotated translation of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Euripides' Suppliants, and Euripides' Phoenician Women offers a brilliant constellation of less familiar Theban plays—those dealing with the war between Oedipus’ sons, its casualties, and survivors.

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387321066
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Four Plays of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Persians and Other Plays

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Persians and Other Plays written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together four major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Burian, an extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage; Persians, translated by Janet Lembke and C. John Herington, a masterful telling of the Persian Wars from the view of the defeated; and Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon.

A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies. Aeschylus

Author : James C. Hogan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226348438
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies. Aeschylus written by James C. Hogan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Classical scholar James C. Hogan provides a general introduction to Aeschylean theater and drama, followed by a line-by-line commentary on each of the seven plays. He draws on a vast range of scholarship and criticism to give modern readers the most accurate picture possible of what ancient audiences saw and understood in the spectacle of Greek tragedy. Hogan places Aeschylus in the historical, cultural, and religious context of fifth-century Athens, showing how the action and metaphor of Aeschylean theater can be illuminated by information on Athenian law, athletic contests, relations with neighboring states, beliefs about the underworld, demons, omens, and divination, and countless other details of Hellenic life. He clarifies terms that might puzzle modern readers, such as place names and mythological references, and gives special attention to textual and linguistic issues: controversial questions of interpretation; difficult or significant Greek words; use of style, rhetoric, and commonplaces in Greek poetry; and Aeschylus's place in the poetic tradition of Homer, Hesiod, and the elegiac poets. Practical information on staging and production is also included, as the author has kept in mind the need of modern readers to visualize the drama in order to understand the text. Though little is known about Greek choreography and music, Hogan stresses their central role and provides notes on entrances and exits, the use of extras, costuming, tableaux, masks, the use of a stage, the interaction of chorus and actors, tone, gesture, style of acting, and spectacle."--Back cover

Under the Sign of the Shield

Author : Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739125892
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Under the Sign of the Shield written by Froma I. Zeitlin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the last drama of Aeschylus' trilogy concerned with the fortunes of the house of Laius that ends with the story of Oedipus' sons, the enemy brothers, who self-destruct in mutual fratricide but thereby save the besieged city of Thebes. The book's findings, however, far exceed these limits to explore the relationships between language and kinship, as between family and city, self and society, and Greek ideas about the nature of human development and identity.

Aeschylus and War

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317196481
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Aeschylus and War written by Isabelle Torrance and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war and its attendant trauma. The volume features contributions from an international cast of experts, as well as a conversation with a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col., giving her perspectives on the blending of reality and fiction in Aeschylus’ war tragedies and on the potential of Greek tragedy to speak to contemporary veterans. This book is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in Aeschylus, Greek tragedy and its reception, and war literature.

Aeschylus II

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226311481
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Aeschylus II written by Aeschylus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated translation of the Oresteia trilogy and fragments of the satyr play Proteus includes an extensive historical and critical introduction. In the third edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining their vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Each volume also includes an introduction to the life and work of the tragedian and an explanation of how the plays were first staged, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. The result is a series of lively and authoritative translations offering a comprehensive introduction to these foundational works of Western drama.

Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Loeb Classical Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by Loeb Classical Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once. Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The third volume of this edition collects all the major fragments of lost Aeschylean plays.

The Greek Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812983092
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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The Oresteia of Aeschylus

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016258470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Oresteia of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Tragedies

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340962050
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Tragedies written by Aeschylus and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Seven Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781518846359
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Plays written by Sophocles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles, is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-feted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in around 30 competitions, won perhaps 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 14 competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles, while Euripides won only 4 competitions. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of the drama, most importantly by adding a third actor, thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus."

Seven Famous Greek Plays

Author : Whitney J. Oates
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394701257
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Seven Famous Greek Plays written by Whitney J. Oates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1955-07-12 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in complete mystery. The creative literary activity of this epoch likewise betokens on the part of the Greeks an increasingly higher level of self-understanding and self-consciousness, in the best sense of the word. At this time appeared a group of lyric poets, who had looked deeply within their own natures, and through the vehicle of their poetry, made abundantly evident how thoroughly they understood the essential character of man's inner being. In Greek tragedy as we now have it we meet a fully developed dramatic form....The influence of tragedy on classic comedy is evident in the increasing preoccupation with subjects that are utopian or timeless, [while] the traditional satire on contemporary events and personages recedes more and more into the background." -- from the Introduction, by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr.

Aeschylus - Seven Plays

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Special Edition Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977340026
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Aeschylus - Seven Plays written by Aeschylus and published by Special Edition Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Aeschylus in the development of the drama is immense. Before him tragedy had consisted of the chorus and one actor; and by introducing a second actor, expanding the dramatic dialogue thus made possible, and reducing the lyrical parts, he practically created Greek tragedy, as we understand it. Like other writers of his time, he acted in his own plays, and trained the chorus in their dances and songs; and he did much to give impressiveness to the performances by his development of the accessories of scene and costume on the stage. Of the seventy or eighty plays which he is said to have written, only seven survive: "The Suppliant Maidens," on the daughters of Danas; "The Persians," dealing with the defeat of Xerxes at Salamis; "The Seven against Thebes," part of a tetra logy on the legend of Thebes; "Prometheus Bound," part of a trilogy, of which the first part was probably "Prometheus, the Fire-bringer," and the last, "Prometheus Unbound; " and the "Oresteia (The House of Atreus)," the only example of a complete Greek tragic trilogy which has come down to us, consisting of "Agamemnon, Choephorae (The Libation-Bearers)," and the "Eumenides (The Furies)." The Oresteian trilogy on "The House of Atreus" is one of the supreme productions of all literature. It deals with the two great themes of the retribution of crime and the inheritance of evil; and here a parallel may be found between the assertions of the justice of God by Aeschylus and by the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel. The nobility of thought and the majesty of style with which these ideas are set forth give this triple drama its place at the head of the literary masterpieces of the antique world.