AESCHYLUS I : Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides, Prometheus Bound

David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Editors

Published by Random House/The Modern Library, New York, NY, 1942

About this Item

Random House/The Modern Library, New York. 1942 copyright; due to a zip code on the jacket, it must be 1963 or later printing. Hardcover. Later Printing. One of seven modern library volumes comprising the Complete Greek Tragedies. This is Volume 1; order number ML310. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; light chipping at tail; rubbing to panels; closed tears on top edge; age toning. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine with ML embossed on front board. ML lettering on endpapers. 245 pp 12 mo. Aeschylus was born in the last quarter of the 6th Century BC; about 513 BC. He left behind more than 70 plays of which 7 have survived. He was known as the father of Greek tragedy and presented are four of his tragedies of which only Prometheus Bound is in doubt as to its true authorship. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AESCHYLUS I : Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
• Publisher: Random House/The Modern Library, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1942
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 5th or later Printin
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • The Ancient World
  • Literature/Poetry