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Greek Tragedies 1
Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus | Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore
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Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschyluss Agamemnon, translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschyluss Prometheus Bound, translated by David Grene; Sophocless Oedipus the King, translated by David Grene; Sophocless Antigone, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripidess Hippolytus, translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocless satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.
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Greek Tragedies | David Grene, Richmond Lattimore
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I meant to share this a few weeks ago but I forgot. My husband set up #readingbuddies Gavin 🐧 and Droopy with a little light reading 😂 So glad we have the same goofy sense of humour! 😍#husbandsofLitsy

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I just picked up the tagged book today at the Symphony book sale! #TBR The rest of these I've read, except the Ibsen plays (I've only read A Doll's House) but it's been awhile. I saw A Glass Menagerie on the #stage back in high school. I should reread it. When I was young, I empathized with Laura but when I was older, it was Tom that I identified with. I wonder how I'd feel about the characters now? #TBRR #ReadingResolutions

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