The Complete Aeschylus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Aeschylus write by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2013-04-08. The Complete Aeschylus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides. The trilogy thus traces the evolution of justice in human society from blood vengeance to the rule of law, Aeschylus' contribution to a Greek legend steeped in murder, adultery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and endless intrigue.
The Complete Aeschylus:Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
The Complete Aeschylus:Volume II: Persians and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Aeschylus:Volume II: Persians and Other Plays write by Peter Burian. This book was released on 2009-03-17. The Complete Aeschylus:Volume II: Persians and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.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 richly symbolic play about the feuding sons of Oedipus. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.
The Complete Aeschylus : Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
The Complete Aeschylus : Volume II: Persians and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Aeschylus : Volume II: Persians and Other Plays write by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2009-02-17. The Complete Aeschylus : Volume II: Persians and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. 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 richly symbolic play about the feuding sons of Oedipus. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.
The Complete Sophocles
The Complete Sophocles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Sophocles write by Sophocles. This book was released on 2010. The Complete Sophocles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Herbert Golder also served as General Editor. --Book Jacket.
Aeschylus II
Aeschylus II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aeschylus II write by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2013-04-19. Aeschylus II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
