Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.
Three Greek Plays for the Theatre: Euripides: Medea, Cyclops. Aristophanes: The Frogs
This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek ...
This outstanding collection also offers short biographies of the playwrights, enlightening and clarifying introductions to the plays, and helpful annotations at the bottom of each page.
Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece.
(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays.
Unfortunately, only seven of an estimated 70 plays by Aeschylus have survived into modern × one of these plays, Prometheus Bound, is sometimes thought not to be the work of Aeschylus.At least one of Aeschylus's works was influenced by the ...