Aeschylus / with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aeschylus.

Contributor:

Smyth, Herbert Weir, 1857-1937.

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; no. 145-146.

Loeb classical library ; no. 145-146

Standardized Title:

Works. English & Greek. 1999

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999-2001.

Summary:

Aeschylus, author of the first tragedies existing in European literature, was an Athenian born at Eleusis. He served at Marathon against Darius, 490, and during Xerxes' invasion, 480-479. At Athens he competed in production of plays more than twenty times, and was rewarded on at least thirteen occasions, becoming dominant between 500 and 458 through the splendour of his language and his dramatic conceptions and technique.

Contents:

v. 1. The suppliant maidens. The Persians. Prometheus bound. The seven against Thebes

v. 2. Agamemnon. The libation-bearers. Eumenides. Fragments.

Notes:

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Vol. 2 contains appendix and addendum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones.

Vol. 1 "reprinted 2001".

Originally published 1922-1926.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0674991613

9780674991613

0674991605

9780674991606