Aeschylus

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No detailed description available for "Aeschyli Choephoroe".Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 359871016XISBN-13: 9783598710162Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)Published: 01/01/1991Pages: 77Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d

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No detailed description available for "Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas".Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 3598710194ISBN-13: 9783598710193Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)Published: 01/01/1992Pages: 81Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d

No detailed description available for "Aeschyli Supplices".Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 3598710208ISBN-13: 9783598710209Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)Published: 01/01/1992Pages: 77Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d

This is Volume 5 of "Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt," presenting the surviving tragedies of Aeschylus. This edition includes fragments and Greek scholia of lost plays, based on the edition of Thomas Stanley, with a Latin translation emended by Stanley himself. Also featured is a...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 1445543753ISBN-13: 9781445543758Publisher: Harding Press,...

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. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a...

Aeschylus II contains "The Oresteia," translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus," translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers,...

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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...

The Persians (Persae) is Aeschylus' first surviving play. Unlike all other surviving Greek tragedies, which deal with persons and events from the remote, mythical past, it is about living persons and events that took place barely eight years before it was produced in March...

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....

Aeschylus: The Seven Plays, In English Verse (1890) is a collection of seven plays by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, translated into English verse. The collection includes the plays Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. The translator, Lewis...

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation...

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation...

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From the perspective of the townspeople and the queen, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon follows the emotional journey of grief, rage, and revenge. Agamemnon had dedicated much of his life to a war that his brother started. He vowed to do whatever it takes to win--committing war...

Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War. He has brought with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. Awaiting him is his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who is angry at Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia to...

The Greek city of Argos is waiting for word of the triumph during the Trojan War, and a watchman is posted to send out a signal when it does. The Chorus, an assembly of Argive elders, is informed by the Argive queen Clytemnestra that...

Agamemnon is the first play in The Oresteia, a trilogy by Aeschylus, first performed in 458 BCE. The play tells the tragic story of King Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. It explores themes...

Agamemnon is a Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus in 1879. It is the first play in a trilogy called The Oresteia, which also includes The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides. The play tells the story of Agamemnon, the king of Argos, who returns home...

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Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchanals of Euripides: With Passages from the Lyric and Later Poets of Greece is a book written by Aeschylus in 1865. The book is a collection of two Greek plays, Agamemnon and Bacchanals, along with passages from other Greek...

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Agamemnon is a Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus in 1832. The play tells the story of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, who returns home after winning the Trojan War. However, his homecoming is not a happy one. His wife, Clytemnestra, has been plotting revenge...

Agamemnon - With Introd. and Notes by A. Sidgwick. Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

Liber ""Aischylos Agamemnon"" est fabula tragica Aeschyli, quae de victoria Agamemnonis in Troiam et eius reditu ad domum narrat. Agamemnon rex Mycenarum, post decem annos Troiam expugnandi, redit ad domum, ubi occiditur a Clytemnestra, sua uxore, et Aegistho, amante eius. Fabula tractat de poenitentia...

This new edition of Choephori takes into account the abundance of recent scholarship on Aeschylus' work. A. F. Garvie's introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean Orestes tradition in literature and art, the character of the play itself--its ideas, imagery, structure, and staging--and the state of the...

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...

"Four Plays of Aeschylus" refers to a collection including The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound. These plays, written by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus, are considered foundational works of Western drama. The Suppliant Maidens: This play tells the...

"Four Plays of Aeschylus" refers to a collection including The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound. These plays, written by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus, are considered foundational works of Western drama. The Suppliant Maidens: This play tells the...

Four Plays of Aeschylus is a collection of four ancient Greek plays written by Aeschylus, one of the most famous Greek playwrights of all time. The four plays included in this collection are The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, and The...

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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...

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Three masterpieces of classical tragedy Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. This volume also includes extracts from Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs and a...

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1909. Contents: The House of Atreus; Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. Oedipus the King; Antigone by Sophocles. Hippolytus; The Bacchae by Euripides. The Frogs by Aristophanes.Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 1162627107ISBN-13: 9781162627106Publisher: Kessinger PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2010Pages: 472Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.02w x 0.95d

""Nine Greek Dramas"" is a collection of plays by four of the most renowned Greek playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. This volume, part of the V8 Harvard Classics series, includes works such as ""Agamemnon"" and ""Prometheus Bound"" by Aeschylus, ""Oedipus Rex"" and...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 149809192XISBN-13: 9781498091923Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 470Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.95d

Author names not noted above: Euripides and Aristophanes. Translator names not noted above: E.D.A. Morshead, E.H. Plumtre, Gilbert Murray, and B.B. Rogers. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature,...

Author names not noted above: Euripides and Aristophanes. Translator names not noted above: E.D.A. Morshead, E.H. Plumtre, Gilbert Murray, and B.B. Rogers. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature,...

The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate and...

Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. Following Mr Burns...

Persae is a Greek tragedy by Aeschylus that tells the story of the Persian Wars. It was first performed in Athens in 472 BC and is one of the oldest extant plays in the Western canon. The play explores themes of pride, hubris, and...

The Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis,...

Aeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the power to inspire and terrify readers and theatre-goers alike. The four plays in this volume demonstrate the full range and depth of...

Aaron Poochigian's new translations of Aeschylus's earliest extant plays provide the clearest rendering yet of their formal structure. The distinction between spoken and sung rhythms is as sharp as it is in the source texts, and for the first time readers in English can...

Though it tells the stories of the defeated, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays features four tragedies that depict both unfortunate demises and the essence of the fighting human spirit. The Suppliants, the first play of the collection, follows the daughters of Danaus as they...