The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides - Softcover

Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226844692 ISBN 13: 9780226844695

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Synopsis

The most authoritative, accessible, and poetic translations of the Greek Tragedies ever produced, now in one volume!
 
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s collections of the complete Greek tragedies, expertly updated by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most, this collection brings together seventeen of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece. Combining accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation, the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides have been rendered so compellingly in English that they remain the definitive translations. Each text has been carefully updated to bring it even closer to the ancient Greek original while retaining the vibrancy for which Chicago’s versions are famous.
 
Alongside the plays, this edition includes an introduction to the life and work of each tragedian; an introduction to each play offering essential information about its first production, plot, and reception through the centuries; and notes addressing textual uncertainties. Featuring lively translations by eminent classicists and authors including Anne Carson, Robert Fitzgerald, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Oliver Taplin, Emily Townsend Vermeule, and Elizabeth Wyckoff, this is an indispensable anthology for any reader of the foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.
 

About this title

About the Authors

Aeschylus (c. 525/524–456/455 BCE) was an ancient Greek tragedian who authored an estimated seventy to ninety plays, of which seven survive in their entirety. 

Sophocles (ca. 495–405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist. 


David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought.

Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. 

Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature and professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226844692
• ISBN 13: 9780226844695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1136
• Editor: Grene David, Lattimore Richmond