Aeschylus

The Electra Plays

Aeschylus; Euripides; Sophocles

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Greek Tragedy

Aeschylus; Euripides; Sophocles

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Other editions: Softcover - 2009

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The Oresteia

Aeschylus; George Derwent Thomson

One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.

The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphigeneia’s mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electra’s encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and vengeance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years.

The trilogy is presented here in George Thomson’s classic translation renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and multilayered richness of the original Greek.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2009, 2007, 2007, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2003, Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1998, Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1995

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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2008, Softcover - 2008, Hardcover - 2008, Softcover - 2007, 1969

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The House of Atreus

Aeschylus

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Other editions: Softcover - 2007, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2003, Softcover - 2003

Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays

Aeschylus

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The Tragedies of Aeschylus: Literally Translated With Critical and Illustrative Notes and Introduction

Aeschylus

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Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus

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Nine Greek Dramas 1909

Aeschylus; Euripides; Aristophanes; Sophocles

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Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes: Harvard Classics 1909

Aeschylus

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Four Plays Of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus; E. D. A. Morshead

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Suppliants

Aeschylus

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from womens resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal constraint with which he compresses high emotion to the bursting point. The Suppliants, which is the first and only surviving part of a trilogy, does not conform to our expectations of Greek drama in that it has neither hero, nor downfall, nor tragic conclusion. Instead the play portrays unresolved conflicts of sexuality, love, and emotional maturity. These distinctly modern themes come alive in a translation that re-creates the psychological immediacy as well as the dramatic tension of this ancient work.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1975, 1970

Persians

Aeschylus

The First Surviving Play in the history of western drama. The Persians represents a courageous act on the part of its author. The subject of Aeschylus' play was, in part, the conquering of the Persians by the Greeks, but he presented that event to his Greek audience not from their point of view, but from that of the defeated Persians. Accordingly, the Greeks were faced with a very human portrait of a people that they had only recently enslaved. The effect was to make the enemy knowable, to show the humanity of a people which war - as it has since time immemorial - had generalized and dehumanized. The lesson of Aeschylus' play speaks just as clearly today as it did for the ancient Greeks: the enemy is always us, human beings with shared (even if slightly dissimilar) aspirations and dreams. As director Peter Sellars points out in his introduction, "By humanizing the enemy, Aeschylus begins to suggest that we have much to learn about ourselves through the eyes of others, and that what we think we know about others should be questioned and expanded". In this modern version of Aeschylus' play. Robert Auletta shifts the action of the play from Persia to a modern-day Iraq, and, like Aeschylus, asks Americans to question and challenge their views of our recently defeated enemies.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1991, 1981, 1970

Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

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Other editions: Softcover - 1996, Softcover - 1993, Softcover - 1990, Hardcover - 1979, 1975, Softcover - 1963, Softcover - 1963

The Orestia

Aeschylus

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Sieben Gegen Theben: [mit Einem Nachspiel]

Aeschylus; Durs Grunbein

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Le Tragedie

Aeschylus; Monica Centanni

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Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays

Aeschylus

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

Agamemnon: A Play Translated Fro the Greek into English, Unabridged

Aeschylus

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Other editions: Softcover - 1997, Softcover - 1995, 1970

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Aeschylus: The Complete Plays Four Plays

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus: The Complete Plays Oresteia Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides

Aeschylus

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Suppliants/Ajax

Aeschylus; Sophocles

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Scholia Graeca in Aeschylum Quae Exstant Omnia: Scholia in Septem Adversus Thebas Continens

Aeschylus; O. L. Smith

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Die Perser: [Stuck Und Materialien]

Aeschylus; Durs Grunbein

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