EAN: 9780226844695

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

"Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece collected into a single volume. Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's collections of the complete Greek tragedies expertly updated by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most this collection brings together seventeen of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece. Combining accuracy poetic immediacy and clarity of presentation the masterpieces of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides have been rendered so compellingly in English that they remain the definitive translations. Each text has been carefully updated to bring it even closer to the ancient Greek original while retaining the vibrancy for which Chicago's versions are famous. Alongside the plays this edition includes an introduction to the life and work of each tragedian an introduction to each play offering essential information about its first production plot and reception through the centuries and notes addressing textual uncertainties. Featuring lively translations by eminent classicists and authors including Anne Carson Robert Fitzgerald David Grene Richmond Lattimore Oliver Taplin Emily Townsend Vermeule and Elizabeth Wyckoff this is an indispensable anthology for any reader of the foundational works of Western drama art and life"--

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