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The complete Aeschylus. Volume II, Persians and other plays / edited by Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aeschylus.
- Series:
- Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek literature.
- Aeschylus--Translations into English.
- Aeschylus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (427 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The volume brings together four major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Burian, an extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage; Persians, translated by Janet Lembke and C. John Herington, a masterful telling of the Persian Wars from the view of the defeated; and Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PERSIANS; SEVEN AGAINST THEBES; SUPPLIANTS; PROMETHEUS BOUND; Appendix: The Fragmentary Prometheus Plays; GLOSSARY; FOR FURTHER READING
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045183-1
- 1-281-99854-0
- 9786611998547
- 0-19-970641-7
- OCLC:
- 437114942
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