18 books like Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
Alcestis
"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…
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Tragoediae
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The tragedies of Sophocles
Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley.
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Sophocles
Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and…
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Euripide
Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris.
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The complete plays of Sophocles
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…
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Supplices
Centering on the right of proper burial for those fallen in battle, Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. In Electra Euripides gives us his version of the famous legend of the murder of Clytaemestra by her children in revenge for her killing their father, a portrayal interestingly different from that in Sophocles' Electra. Narrating sudden reversals in the hero's fortunes,…
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The plays of Euripides
Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves her—here in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murray into English rhyming verse. With explanatory notes.
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Heracles
Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are leavened by the friendship between…
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Seven against Thebes
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.
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Aeschyli Tragoediae
Introduction in English
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Ten plays
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not…
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Prometheus Bound
An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to mankind.
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Sophokles
This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone• Oedipus King of Thebes• The Seven Plays in English Verse• Antigone• Aias• King Oedipus• Electra• The Trachinian Maidens• Philoctetes• Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles,…
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Euripidis Fabulae
Greek text with critical apparatus of plays by Euripides: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea, Children of Herakles, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba.
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Lysistrata
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…
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Electra
Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles.
Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.
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Plays
"Four Plays" by Aeschylus is a collection that typically includes some of the most significant works by this ancient Greek playwright, who is often referred to as the father of tragedy. Aeschylus' plays are known for their profound exploration of justice, power, and the divine. While different collections might include various selections, four of his most famous plays are:
"Agamemnon": The first…
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