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Title: The Complete Aeschylus
Condition: New
Subtitle: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
ISBN-10: 0195373286
EAN: 9780195373288
ISBN: 9780195373288
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/04/2009
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 200mm
Item Length: 134mm
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 552g
Contributor: Peter Burian (Edited by), Alan Shapiro (Edited by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Author: No Author
Release Year: 2009

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