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…
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1. Hippolytos
By: Euripides , Robert Bagg
3.81
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a w… read more
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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience."-Euripides, Hippolytos
"I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly.…"-Euripides, Hippolytos
"О Зевс! Зачем ты создавал жену? И это зло с его фальшивым блеском Лучам небес позволил обливать? Иль для того, чтоб род людской продолжить, Ты обойтись без женщины не мог? Иль из своих за медь и злат…"-Euripides, Hippolytos
2. Herakles
By: Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh
3.88
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of… read more
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"Even catastrophes grow weary, No wind can keep blasting all the time. And great happiness in the end falters. Yes, all is change."-Euripides, Herakles
"... Misfortunes in the end Grow tired of plaguing; storms in time blow themselves out. So luck will change from man to man; and everything Yields place to something else. Despair is cowardly; The bra…"-Euripides, Herakles
3. Women of Trachis
By: C.K. Williams , Sophocles , Gregory W. Dickerson
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tra… read more
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4. 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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5. Helen
By: Euripides , Colin Leach
3.80
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. … read more
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"It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause."-Euripides, Helen
"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by…"-Euripides, Helen
6. Ion
By: Euripides
3.71
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Series Copy Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly … read more
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7. Electra
By: Euripides , Janet Lempke
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more
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8. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
9. 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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10. Orestes
By: Euripides , John Peck , Frank Nisetich
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more
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12. The Trojan Women
By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more
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13. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more
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14. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
By: Aeschylus
3.80
Format: 43 pages, None
Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more
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15. The Suppliants
By: Aeschylus
3.41
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave. Step swift thereto, And i… read more
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16. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
17. Iphigenia in Aulis
By: Euripides , Nicholas Rudall
3.84
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Troj… read more
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18. Suppliant Women
By: Euripides , Rosanna Warren , None
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn betwe… read more
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19. Cyclops
By: Euripides , David Konstan , Heather McHugh
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create th… read more
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20. Andromache
By: Euripides , Marianne McDonald , F. Michael Walton , None
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Andromache takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Andromache has become a concubine to Ach… read more
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21. The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
By: Aeschylus
3.73
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and h… read more
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"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!"-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)