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]
$6.95
Amazon.com |
Oedipus Trilogy (Cliffs Notes)
very good: contains everything i needed for the book in english class, a must read if you are having trouble with the book poet: This is one of the most memorable plays I have read in my life. It has love, drama, incest and so on. It's so good that I [... more]
$5.99
Amazon.com |
The Odyssey (Signet Classics)
Homer's World: This book is written as a novel in easy lucid style that reads as a story and a good read. However, much of the writings themselves are poetry, where various ancient Greek reciters read such passages with in depth acting and poetic style, [... more]
$5.95
Amazon.com |
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]
$5.95
Amazon.com |
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]
$2.00
Amazon.com |
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]
$1.50
Amazon.com |
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]
$2.00
Amazon.com |
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]
$2.00
Amazon.com |
The Iliad (Dover Thrift Editions)
A poor rendition of a timeless classic: While the words "Iliad" usually conjure bad memories of High School English classes, this great epic of the end of the Trojan War survived all these years for a reason. Homer gets a bit redundant, with [... more]
$3.50
Amazon.com |
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
Amazon.com |
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
Amazon.com |
The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
excellent translation from excellent series: This excellent edition of Seven Against Thebes is part of Oxford University Press' ongoing series Greek Tragedy in New Translations, the idea behind which is that these plays should be translated into English [... more]
$1.50
Amazon.com |
Information provided in association with Amazon.com.
Prices are intended as a guide only, and are subject to change.
To confirm pricing and availability, click through to the merchant.
