18 books like Supplices
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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The tragedies of Sophocles
Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley.
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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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Phoenician women
The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of the Athenian playwright Euripides, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
Beautifully illustrated with images relating…
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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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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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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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Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus…
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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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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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Aeschylus
““A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting…"
As Charles Isherwood noted in The New York Times, “the ruler of a rich and powerful empire leads his countrymen into a disastrous war on foreign soil in “The Persians,” a play Aeschylus wrote in the fifth century B.C. It seems the guy was acting on advice from bad counselors. And trying to finish some business started by papa, who ruled before…
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Way of Danger
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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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Euripidis Tragoediae
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Euripides
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and…
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