Ancient & Classical
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe 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 natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles
$16.99 Add to cart“Bagg and Scully’s renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I’ve ever encountered…if you’re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressiv
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 006202034X
- Language: English
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Bacchae
$19.99 Add to cartA bold new translation of Euripides’ shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, with a new introduction by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic and trans
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0062319671
- Language: English
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Birds and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis new verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies offers one of the world’s great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes’ plays were p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555672
- Language: English
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The Bacchae and Other Plays
$13.00 Add to cartThrough their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician W… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0140447261
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King
$16.67 Add to cartAvailable for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to sav
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226768686
- Language: English
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Trojan Women
$15.99 Add to cartAmong surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides’ Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme t… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0195179102
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
$14.95 Add to cartOedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. I- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0192806858
- Language: English
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
$17.95 Add to cartNow in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172531
- Language: English
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Oedipus Cycle PB
$16.99 Add to cartAward-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone–together known as The Oedipus Cycle.
One of
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0062119990
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$14.99 Add to cartFor 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… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0195061659
- Language: English
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Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia Among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
$10.95 Add to cartThe four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Blac… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540527
- Language: English
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Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
$14.93 Add to cartOne of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate p… [more below]
- Series: Plays for Performance
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1566632110
- Language: English
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The Oresteia
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140443339
- Language: English
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An Oresteia
$19.00 Add to cartIn An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Orestes. After the murder
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 086547916X
- Language: English
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Medea/Hippolytus/Electra/Helen
$9.94 Add to cartEuripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537968
- Language: English
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes
$18.00 Add to cartIn the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine’s Phedre, Euripedes’ Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story o
- Author: Hughes, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 4, 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527059
- Language: English
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Antigonick
$12.95 Add to cartAnne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles’ luminous and disturbing tragedy is h… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 51
- Publish Date: May 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0811222926
- Language: English
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Medea and Other Plays
$11.00 Add to cartFour plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society
The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, b- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 30 1963
- ISBN10: 0140441298
- Language: English
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Medea
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 19, 1993
- ISBN10: 0486275485
- Language: English
