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Loading... The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanesby Encyclopedia Britannica, Aeschylus (Contributor), Aristophanes (Contributor), Euripides (Contributor), Sophocles (Contributor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The texts themselves are priceless, but the translations in this volume are seriously dated and often obscure the meaning of the Greek - especially worthy of disdain are the Aristophanes translations by Rogers, who transposes bawdy Greek comedy into impenetrable and euphemistic (or censored) Victorian rhyming verse. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesGreat Books of the Western World (Volume 5) Is contained inContains5 Plays: Bacchae / Heracles / Children of Heracles / Phoenician Women / Suppliant Women by Euripides Medea [in Translation] by Euripides (indirect) The Children of Heracles by Euripides (indirect) Hippolytus by Euripides (indirect) Andromache [in translation] by Euripides (indirect) Hecuba [in translation] by Euripides (indirect) The Suppliant Women by Euripides (indirect) The Trojan Women by Euripides (indirect) Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides (indirect) The Phoenician Women by Euripides (indirect) Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides (indirect) Rhesus [in translation] by Euripides (indirect) The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides; and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (indirect) Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (indirect) Ajax [in translation] by Sophocles (indirect) Women of Trachis [in translation] by Sophocles (indirect) Philoctetes (translation) by Sophocles (indirect) Ajax; Antigone; Oedipus the King by Sophocles (indirect) The Acharnians [Greek text] by Aristophanes (indirect) The Knights [translations] by Aristophanes (indirect) The Clouds by Aristophanes (indirect) The Wasps [translations] by Aristophanes (indirect) Peace [Greek text] by Aristophanes (indirect) The Birds [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) Lysistrata by Aristophanes (indirect) The Women at the Thesmophoria [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) The Frogs [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) The Assembly of Women [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) Wealth [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes (indirect) The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes (indirect) Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (indirect) The Persians by Aischylos (indirect) The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus (indirect) The Suppliants by Aeschylus (indirect) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (indirect) Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (indirect) The Acharnians [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) Peace [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect) Choephoroe by Aeschylus (indirect) The Oresteia of Aeschylus Vol.1 [...] by Aeschylus (indirect) The Oresteia of Aeschylus. Vol. 2 by Aeschylus (indirect)
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