8 must-read classics books like Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus by Euripides

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Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

By: Euripides

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus Translated by John Davie with an Introduction an…

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1. Philoctetes

By: Sophocles

3.89

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Philoctetes is a play written by Sophocles, an ancient Greek playwright, that tells the story of Ph… read more

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2. 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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"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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3. Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

By: Euripides

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus Translated by John Davie with an Introduction an… read more

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  • mythology
  • drama
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4. Hesiod and Theognis

By: Hesiod , Theognis

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Hesiod was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BCE. His writings serv… read more

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5. 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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6. The Complete Plays

By: Aristophanes , Moses Hadas , R.H. Webb

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' c… read more

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7. Lysistrata and Other Plays

By: Aristophanes , Alan H. Sommerstein

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy… read more

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8. 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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9. Jason and the Golden Fleece

By: Apollonius of Rhodes , Richard L. Hunter

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Argonauticais the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with … read more

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10. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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11. The Library of Greek Mythology

By: None , Robin Hard

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorusis a uniqu… read more

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12. 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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13. Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra

By: Sophocles , Edith Hall , H.D.F. Kitto

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since an… read more

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14. Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)

By: Richmond Lattimore , Sophocles , John Moore , David Grene , None

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters,… read more

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15. Homeric Hymns

By: Homer , Jules Cashford , None

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddess… read more

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16. 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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17. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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18. 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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19. 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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20. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

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21. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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3.81

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Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

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Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

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