Greek Tragedy
$19.86
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2004
Summary
Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume introduction for theatre goers, actors, general readers, and students of Classics, English Literature, and Drama.
- Agamemnon is the first part of Aeschylus’s Orestian trilogy, in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan War to be murdered by his treacherous wife, Clytemnestra.
- In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the king sets o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439365 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014143936X |
| Author: | Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Simon Goldhill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Aeschylus
AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave.
Simon Goldhill (introducer) is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King’s College where he is Director of Studies in Classics. He has published widely on many aspects of Greek literature, especially tragedy. He is in great demand as a lecturer all over the world, and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television on classical matters.
Shomit Dutta (editor) was educated at University College Oxford, and King’s College London, and has taught classics at Radley College and Harrow School, and Oxford. He is also a freelance arts reviewer, and has published a translation of Sophocles’ Ajax (Cambridge).
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