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The Electra (Hardcover)
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Sophocles Sophocles
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R844
Discovery Miles 8 440
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a
momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that
would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers.
They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists
David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined
accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render
the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the
standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure
that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language
versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly
anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have
carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the
ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English
versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new
translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles",
"Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost
plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles'
satyr-drama "The Trackers". New introductions for each play offer
essential information about its first production, plot, and
reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume
includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as
well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of
names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new
content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between
volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in
which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of
handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of
readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and
life.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a
momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that
would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers.
They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists
David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined
accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render
the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the
standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure
that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language
versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly
anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have
carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the
ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English
versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new
translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles",
"Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost
plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles'
satyr-drama "The Trackers". New introductions for each play offer
essential information about its first production, plot, and
reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume
includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as
well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of
names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new
content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between
volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in
which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of
handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of
readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and
life.
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The Electra (Paperback)
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Sophocles Sophocles
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R564
Discovery Miles 5 640
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Antigone (Hardcover)
Martin Luther Dooge, Gustav Georg Wolff, Sophocles Sophocles
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R857
Discovery Miles 8 570
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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