Antigone - Oedipus the King - Electra

Antigone - Oedipus the King - Electra similar books

• 

  Electra

  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 T…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Delicate Marriage

  From glittering ballrooms to verdant mountains to poverty-stricken slums, A Delicate Marriage takes the reader on a vivid tour of Puerto Rico forty years after becoming a U.S. colony, a time of great …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Bacchae and Other Plays

  Euripides is the most modern of the great Greek tragedians, as the four plays in this volume demonstrate. Ion is concerned with the problem of reconciling religious faith with the facts of human life,…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

  Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here.
  
  In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody c…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Medea and Other Plays

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Medea and Other Plays

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Alcestis

  At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and thematic…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Bacchae

  Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Frogs and Other Plays

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Medea

  One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Orestes

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Iphigenia in Aulis (Plays for Performance Series)

  Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Mr. Rudall's new trans…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Aeneid

  The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.
  
  
  Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aen…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

  A national television journalist asks the principal of Barkley Elementary School to describe her former student, Cindy Divine. She replies, "Cindy was an honor student for five years. Her long red hai…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)

  Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and his sons. After the city of Thebes has banished Oedipus, the former ruler's sons vie for the crown. Th…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Theogony / Works and Days

  Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Metamorphoses

  Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn
  
  In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformat…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Lost and Found

  Grief and loss are part of everyone’s life. How do people manage grief and find a way forward? How do the people we meet along the way help us to fill life with meaning in good times and bad?
  
  Rebecca t…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Iphigeneia in Tauris

  The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of h…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Lysistrata

  Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favou…

  Buy this book on Amazon