This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's introduction and notes.Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinc
Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme t
Dickin (classical languages and ancient culture, McMaster U. and U. of Guelph) examines the evolution of the Tragic Messenger in Greek drama from minor character to lead role and the significance of t
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentari
This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and m
Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth,
Since it was first performed in Athens in the 420s B.C., Oedipus the King has been widely regarded as Sophocles' greatest tragedy and one of the foundation stones of western drama. Taken as a model by
Sophocles' tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of
Jonge (ancient Greek language and literature, Leiden U.) strives to illuminate both the language theories that circulated at the end of the first century BC, and important connections between the vari
Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explore
The interest that Greek playwright Euripides (480-406 BC) had in tragic conventions such as the epirrhematic emoibaion is always bound thematically to his interest in gender, contends Chong-Gossard cl
Using an analysis of Euripides' use of language and of imagery, this book demonstrates that his imaginative powers differ in kind, not just in quality, from those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and that
The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of
Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bce survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tra
Euripides' Ion is the story of a young man's search for his identity, and a woman's attempt to come to terms with her past. Through the story of a divine rape and its consequences, it asks questions a
Aristophanes' comedies have stood the test of time as some of the greatest comic literature ever produced. While there have been numerous commentaries on Aristophanes and his world, until now there ha
Reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. This book argues that the theme of becoming female, and the resulting failure to circumscribe the feminine
A new, accurate, and readable translation of four of Aeschylus' plays: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, and Prometheus Bound. It is based upon the most authoritative recent edition of the
