The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Alan Shapiro, Euripides and Peter Burian
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the...
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
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What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the...
The Portable Greek Reader
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It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's...
Aeschylus: Libation Bearers
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Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity,...
The Complete Euripides: Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the...
Home Fire
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author...
Fiction social issues
Oedipus the King: A New Translation
Sophocles and Robert Bagg
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Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, "Oedipus the King" is the ancient world's most...
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and...
Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
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When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic...
Agamemnon
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A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon,...