Greek Tragedy

AvAeschylus,Euripides

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Agememnon is the first part of the 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 out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father.Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-26
Mått:128 x 198 x 21 mm
Vikt:260 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780141439365

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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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Greek TragedyChronological TableIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the TextsPreface to AgamemnonAgamemnon by AeschylusPreface to Oedipus RexOedipus Rex by SophoclesPreface to MedeaMedea by EuripidesPreface to FrogsExtracts from Frogs by AristophanesPreface to PoeticsExtracts from Poetics by AristotleNotesGenealogical TablesMap of Ancient Greece