Best Translations Of Greek Tragedies - April 2024

Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. 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 ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226311511
• ASIN: 0226311511
• ISBN: 0226311511
• Brand: Brand: University Of Chicago Press
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

The House by the River

From acclaimed Greek writer Lena Manta comes an emotionally powerful saga following five young women as they realize that no matter where life leads them, the only constant is home. Theodora knows she can’t keep her five beautiful daughters at home forever—they’re too curious, too free spirited, too like their late father. And so, before each girl leaves the small house on the riverside at the foot of Mount Olympus, Theodora makes sure they know they are always welcome to return. Having survived World War II, the Nazi occupation of Greece, and her husband’s death, Theodora now endures... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N7VKP78
• ASIN: B01N7VKP78
• Manufacturer: Amazon Crossing

Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The series seeks to recover the entire extant corpus of Greek tragedy, quite as though the ancient tragedians wrote in the English of our own time. Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each of these volumes includes a critical introduction, com... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195061675
• ASIN: 0195061675
• ISBN: 0195061675
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

• ASIN: B001BKHU5G
• ASIN: B001BKHU5G

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

• ASIN: 0140444254
• UPC: 884936407450
• ASIN: 0140444254
• ISBN: 0140444254
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Buri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195373286
• ASIN: 0195373286
• ISBN: 9780195373288
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the sense of poetry evident in the originals. Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shaprio, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on difficult passages, ample stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical names and geographical references encountered in the di... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195054938
• ASIN: 0195054938
• ISBN: 0195054938
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Greek Tragedies, Volume 1

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

• ASIN: 0226307905
• ASIN: 0226307905
• ISBN: 0226307905
• Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 2: Sophocles

The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks. For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226307654
• ASIN: 0226307654
• ISBN: 0226307654
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

History: A Novel

History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the w... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00SECZGPU
• ASIN: B00SECZGPU
• Manufacturer: Steerforth

John Sandford Lucas Davenport Novels 1-5 (A Lucas Davenport Novel)

• ASIN: B004WB1A8Y
• ASIN: B004WB1A8Y
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.

• ASIN: 015602764X
• UPC: 884885440409
• ASIN: 015602764X
• ISBN: 015602764X
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Aeschylus II: The Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

Aeschylus II contains “The Oresteia,” translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of “Proteus,” translated by Mark Griffith. 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 a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226311473
• ASIN: 0226311473
• ISBN: 0226311473
• Brand: Brand: University Of Chicago Press
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

The Complete Sophocles: Volume I: The Theban Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference. This... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195388801
• ASIN: 0195388801
• ISBN: 0195388801
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides’s “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene. 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 e... [Read More]

• ASIN: 022603528X
• ASIN: 022603528X
• ISBN: 022603528X
• Brand: Brand: University Of Chicago Press
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

Commentary on Paul's Letter to Romans : With a Revised Greek Text, Compiled from the Best Recent Authors and a New Translation

Commentary on Paul's Letter to

• UPC: 53508909
• Rating: 5.0

Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback): The Complete Euripides (Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that

• UPC: 13011474

Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback): The Complete Aeschylus, Volume II (Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that

• UPC: 10227367

Ladies' Greek : Victorian Translations of Tragedy

In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why

• UPC: 45691671

Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback): The Complete Euripides, Volume III (Paperback)

9780195388770

• UPC: 11001969

Antigone

Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a

• UPC: 508658
• Rating: 3.75

Euripides : Hecuba

This edition of the classical Greek tragedy, which sees the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Polyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba herself, has been translated with special emphasis placed on the rhetoric and the

• UPC: 52895895

Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Hardcover): Women of Trachis (Hardcover)

9780195020502

• UPC: 404068254

Medea

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of

• UPC: 25954161
• Rating: 4.3

The Life of and Character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis : Collected from the Best Ancient Greek and Latin Authors; And Designed for the Readers of Cato, a Tragedy

The Life Of And Character Of Marcus

• UPC: 666255104