The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) [1 ed.] 9780195387827, 9780195373301, 0195387821

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and time

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The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) [1 ed.]
9780195387827, 9780195373301, 0195387821

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and time

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Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibb

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timel

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The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries;

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Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through

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The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries;

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Sophocles’ Electra deals with the famous story of Orestes’ vengeance on his mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his fa

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The two volumes of essays and translations of the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides are the accumulation of some twel

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Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Gre

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Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recogniz

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