11 best-selling classics books like Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides

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Orestes and Other Plays

By: Euripides

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Sup…

If you liked the classics plot in Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Rope and Other Plays

By: Plautus , E.F. Watling

3.67

Format: 284 pages, Unknown Binding

Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 … read more

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  • ancient history
  • ancient
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2. The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

By: Aristophanes

3.67

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender i… read more

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3. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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4. Peace

By: Aristophanes , S. Douglas Olson

3.51

Format: 404 pages, hardback

Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 B.C. as a decade-long war w… read more

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"If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect. πρὸς τάδ’ ἡμῖν, εἴ τι χρὴ δρᾶν, φράζε κἀρχιτεκτόνει."

-Aristophanes, Peace

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5. The Acharnians

By: Aristophanes , Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva , None , Richard Thomas Elliott

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

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6. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
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  • ancient
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  • plays
  • mythology
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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7. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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8. The Comedies

By: Terence , Betty Radice

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comi… read more

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9. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics

10. The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarerare among the g… read more

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11. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

By: Aeschylus , Philip Vellacott

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

The first of the great Greek Tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven su… read more

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12. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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13. The Satires of Horace and Persius

By: Horatius , Persius , None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Au… read more

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14. The Birds and Other Plays

By: Aristophanes , Alan H. Sommerstein , David B. Barrett

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is … read more

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15. Theogony/Works and Days

By: Hesiod , None

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more

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16. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • ancient history
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

17. The House of the Dead

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more

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18. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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19. Frogs and Other Plays

By: Aristophanes , David B. Barrett , Shomit Dutta

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristopha… read more

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20. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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21. Orestes and Other Plays

By: Euripides

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Sup… read more

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  • classics
  • tragedy
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  • plays
  • mythology
  • drama

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The Rope and Other Plays

Plautus , E.F. Watling

3.67

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The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

Aristophanes

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Peace

Aristophanes , S. Douglas Olson

3.51

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Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

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Herakles

Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh

3.88

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Women of Trachis

C.K. Williams , Sophocles , Gregory W. Dickerson

3.84

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The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

Aristophanes

3.67

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