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Alcestis Euripides · 1818 · ★ 3.8 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory… Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama

The complete plays of Sophocles Sophocles · 1967 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From… Shares Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama with this book.

Seven against Thebes Aeschylus · 1812 · ★ 3.7 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters. Shares Greek drama, Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

Orestes Euripides · 1753 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the… Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Textual Criticism, Greek drama, Continental european drama

Phoenician women Euripides · 1802 · ★ 3.7 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama with this book.

Frogs Aristophanes · 1785 · ★ 3.8 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the… Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Heracles Euripides · 1876 · ★ 3.9 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation with this book.

Ausgewählte Komödien des Aristophanes Aristophanes · 1852 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Criticism and interpretation with this book.

Lysistrata Aristophanes · 1872 · ★ 3.9 · 117p · ≈ 3h · Challenging In Aristophanes' most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. This volume of Lysistrata brings the play up to date with modern scholarship, providing an account of its history and containing new information about the comic theater and its social and… Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Ten plays Euripides · 1960 · ★ 4.1 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Aeschyli Tragoediae Aeschylus · 1809 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Introduction in English Shares Greek drama, Drama

King Arthur J. Comyns Carr · 1893 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Adaptations, Drama with this book.

Wilhelm Tell Friedrich Schiller · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out… Shares Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

The lay of the last minstrel Sir Walter Scott · 1805 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Criticism and interpretation, Adaptations with this book.

Plays Aeschylus · 1828 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Euripidis Fabulae Euripides · 1844 · 482p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama with this book.

Antigone Sophocles · 1581 · ★ 3.8 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving… Shares Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama

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