Find og sammenlign priser på tusindvis af bøger
First published in 1939, this book presents R. C. Trevelyan's English metrical translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. The aim of the text was to reproduce the form, phrasing and movement of the original for the benefit of readers without know
Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. F
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classi
First presented at the festival of the City Dionysia, in 458 BCE and won the first prize, the Oresteia is the only trilogy that has survived the rapacious ways of Time to come down to us almost intact. The myth that has inspired Aeschylus to write this tr
This Norton Critical Edition includes: Oliver Taplins new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedya trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argoswith explanatory annotations by the editors, ancient backgrounds and responses f
Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies. Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the worlds great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also