Aeschylus, 1 : The Oresteia : Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides (Penn Greek Drama Series)

Slavitt, David R.

ISBN 10: 081221627X / ISBN 13: 9780812216271

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aeschylus, 1 : The Oresteia : Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides (Penn Greek Drama Series)
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081221627X
• ISBN 13: 9780812216271
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

About the Author

David R. Slavitt was educated at Andover and Yale and has published more than sixty books: original poetry (recently Eight Longer Poems), translations (recently Broken Columns, of Statius and Claudian), novels (recently Lives of the Saints), critical works (recently Virgil), and short stories. He worked for seven years as a journalist at Newsweek and continues to do freelance reporting and reviewing. With Palmer Bovie he coedited the series Complete Roman Drama in Translation.