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An accurate and readable new translation, with introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and up-to-date bibliography, of four of Aeschylus' plays, including the unique historical tragedy Persians and the hugely influential Prometheus Bound.
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: Aeschylus |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2008-02-28 |
File |
: 381 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198149682 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Collections |
Author |
: Aeschylus |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Release |
: 2009-02-17 |
File |
: 428 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199706419 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
A new, accurate, and readable translation of four of Aeschylus' plays: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, and Prometheus Bound. It is based upon the most authoritative recent edition of the Greek text and particular care is taken with the many lyric passages. A lengthy introduction sets the plays in their original context, and includes short appreciative essays on them. The explanatory notes treat dramatic issues, structure and form, and theatrical aspects, as well as details of content and language. Major difficulties in the texts themselves, which affect general interpretation, are briefly discussed. The volume as a whole should provide an informative, reliable, and suggestive basis for study and enjoyment.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Release |
: 2008-02-28 |
File |
: 384 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191518317 |
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Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. In Prometheus Bound, the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while The Suppliants relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: Aeschylus |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Release |
: 2009-11-26 |
File |
: 249 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780141955896 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
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.
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: Aeschylus |
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: |
Release |
: 2009 |
File |
: 436 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015078804369 |
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Ann N. Michelini |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2023-10-16 |
File |
: 172 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004668881 |
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Genre |
: Greek literature |
Author |
: Frank Byron Jevons |
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: |
Release |
: 1886 |
File |
: 540 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:HWXR78 |
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: |
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: |
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: |
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: 1895 |
File |
: 434 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112112072928 |
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Genre |
: Alcestis (Greek mythology) |
Author |
: Euripides |
Publisher |
: Penguin Classics |
Release |
: 1996 |
File |
: 246 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCSC:32106012883317 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once. Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The first volume of this new Loeb Classical Library edition offers fresh texts and translations by Alan H. Sommerstein of Persians, the only surviving Greek historical drama; Seven against Thebes, from a trilogy on the conflict between Oedipus' sons; Suppliants, on the successful appeal by the daughters of Danaus to the king and people of Argos for protection against a forced marriage; and Prometheus Bound (of disputed authenticity), on the terrible punishment of Prometheus for giving fire to humans in defiance of Zeus.
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Genre |
: Drama |
Author |
: Aeschylus |
Publisher |
: Loeb Classical Library |
Release |
: 2008 |
File |
: 632 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCSC:32106017455707 |