Sophocles 1 (Methuen's World Dramatists) (v. 1)
 Translations: Researching translations is never an easy task, and in this case, where you'll have to search on Amazon for the title and the translator to find what you want, it's particularly difficult. Here's what I've found by comparing several [... more]
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
Agony, despair, suffering, misery...It's all good.: If tragedy is, as Aristotle described, the imitation (that is, representation) of great people whose downfall induces a sense of pity and fear in the audience, Sophocles's plays are exemplary [... more]
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Chemical Activities
Easy, creative, great for new teachers!: I'm a new science teacher. My undergrad was in science, not education so I had a lot of trouble finding cool, cheap, easy, SAFE!! labs to do in class that the students would find interesting. This is the best lab [... more]
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Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama
Author: Heinrich von Kleist Author: Joel Agee Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780060956325 ISBN: 0060956321 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2000-07-01 Release Date: 2000-06-20 [... more]
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Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Translation with wit but without true character of original: Alan Sommerstein went to some length to translate the puns and plays on words (as further explained in the endnotes), which results in a very active play, and, for the careful reader, wit in [... more]
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The Robbers and Wallenstein (Penguin Classics)
Wallenstein is a Masterpiece: The Wallenstein trilogy is a fascinating work, constructed in an unusual and innovative manner, and marked by unusually powerful language. Wallenstein is a profoundly ambiguous figure. Was he a proto-German nationalist? A [... more]
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The ...
even better the second time around: These are great plays, and this is a beautiful translation. I think, though, that to really appreciate what Aeschylus accomplished (aided and abetted by Fagles), most modern readers should really read the entire [... more]
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Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at ...
A powerful and moving piece!: ~I had to read OEDIPUS REX for my pre-IB sophomore English class, feeling not too happy with another dull, lengthy Greek play (we had to read THE ODYSSEY last year, and it got really redundant). But Sophocles' play...wow, it' [... more]
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Great Collection: I think this is one of the better compilations I've seen. I've really been impressed with all of the Oxford World's Classics series. The information given in the Introduction as well as the maps and reference materials mentioned are [... more]
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The Eclogues: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) ...
Good for students of literature, but too much for others: This edition of Vergil's ECLOGUES comes in Cambridge University Press' "Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics" series, and is a typical entry. The Eclogues were Virgil's first literary [... more]
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Birds and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
A Review on Aristophanes' Plays: Aristophanes is considered the finest comic playwrite of the Classical Era. This is certainly born out through the selection in this volume. Birds is a comedy about an Athenian who decides to incite the birds to take over [... more]
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The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy
How to talk dirty in classical Greek!: I really enjoyed this book and heartily recommend it for the neophyte student in classical theater studies. Jeffrey Henderson repeats the actual Greek characters for common sexual body parts so often that even the [... more]
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