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An Oresteia by Anne Carson (tr.); Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides
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Category: New Hardbacks
A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia," the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions--Aischylos' "Agamemnon," Sophokles' "Elektra," and Euripides' "Orestes"--giving birth to a wholly new e ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honoured and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied t ...Show more
Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55 | Reading Level: very good
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Reading Level: very good
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
OEDIPUS THE KING AND OTHER TRAGEDIES OEDIPUS THE KING AIAS PHILOCTETES OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by SOPHOCLES
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths ...Show more
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Complete Greek Tragedies" have been the preferred choice of ...Show more
Sophocles: Antigone by Sophocles
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimula ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
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