The Greek Plays

Reducere. A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" - Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" - Aeschylus; "Oedipus...

DescriptionThis bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient worl...

Reducere. DescriptionGreek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek clas...

Reducere. Euripides is known in literature & fiction circles as a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Euripides is one of the few whose dramas & plays have ...

Contributor(s): Author: EuripidesEditor: John HarrisonTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in t...

Contributor(s): Author: AeschylusTranslator: David MulroyFirst presented in the spring of 458 B.C.E. at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschyl...

Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone - together these tell the tragic story of Oedipus the ...

DescriptionEuripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the Athens' City Dionysia dramatic competitions in 441 BC...

DescriptionAeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the pow...

Contributor(s): Author: MenanderTranslator: Norma MillerIntroduction by: Norma MillerMenander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek N...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Reducere. Nicholas Rudall, whose acclaimed translations of Ibsen and the Greek classic playwrights have brought a fresh perspective to the American theater, ...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,...

Reducere. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and o...

Without light, there is no photograph. As almost every photographer knows, the word ``photograph`` has its roots in two Greek words that, together,...

Reducere. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -- A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophok...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, s...

Reducere. While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism gu...

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the cou...

Reducere. "A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London. Anne Carson writes, ...

Reducere. In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes la...

Reducere. Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; e...