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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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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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's ...
Strong Translation: H.D.F. Kitto was a distinguished interpreter of Greek tragedy. These translations, which were written for performance, are at once accurate, clear, and very elegant. Hall provides precisely as much information in the notes as the [... more]
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford ...
Amusing: The book contains two of Moliere's best known works, "Tartuffe" (about a religious hypocrite) and "The Misanthrope." Clever and incisive, these works provoke commentary and poke fun at human qualities that everyone can relate [... more]
$8.95
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Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
More than a translation: Oedipus the King is one of the classic works of Western literature. It was originally written as a play in around 429 BC by Sophocles (~496-406 BC), a Greek philosopher and playwright. It took the Greek world by storm, and has [... more]
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Lysistrata (Signet Classics)
Highly readable, but(t).....?: Neither the creaky and surprisingly prudish anonymous translation published by Dover Thrift Editions nor the profanity-laden, anachronistic but highly readable translation by Sarah Ruden is the perfect classroom edition of [... more]
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Bacchae (Dover Thrift Editions)
Book Description: Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to eliminate the boundary between classics students and drama students. Euripides: Bacchae is the second in the series, and is aimed at A-level students in the UK and college students in [... more]
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Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
Book Description: Revised edition of Dr Dawe's bestselling edition. As in the first edition, the commentary tackles problems of language and expression, but is added to by reflections on the text developed in the twenty years since the first edition's [... more]
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Electra (Dover Thrift Editions)
Sophocles looks at the psychological dimensions of Electra: The murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes is unique in Greek mythology in that it is the one story for which we have extant versions by all three of the great tragic poets. Consequently, it [... more]
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Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)
Book Description: Medea was the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides. This edition helps students and others experience a classic drama as they work through the process of careful translation of the original Greek. The introduction [... more]
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Lysistrata (Dover Thrift Editions)
Highly readable, but(t).....?: Neither the creaky and surprisingly prudish anonymous translation published by Dover Thrift Editions nor the profanity-laden, anachronistic but highly readable translation by Sarah Ruden is the perfect classroom edition of [... more]
$1.50
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Prometheus Bound (Dover Thrift Editions)
Not worth it: Don't spend the extra money for this translation. Buy the Dover Thrift edition. You get the same story for a buck or two, and this translation is nothing spectacular. A surprisingly easy to grasp translation...: I always find the prospect [... more]
$2.00
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