Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy

Zusatztext This is a sensational collection for a course in translation....Quite frankly, my students love it, and it has definitely raised the tone of this course in translation. I will always use it. Klappentext Greek tragedy, the fountainhead of all western drama, is widely read by students in a variety of disciplines. Segal here presents twenty-nine of the finest modern essays on the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. All Greek has been translated, but the original footnotes have been retained. Contributors include Anne Burnett, E.R. Dodds, Bernard M.W. Knox, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Karl Reinhardt, Jacqueline de Romilly, Bruno Snell, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Cedric Whitman. Zusammenfassung Twenty-nine modern essays on Aeschylus! Sophocles! and Euripides in a selection made accessible to both professional scholar and student; all Greek quotations have been translated.

Product details

• Authors: Segal, Erich Segal, Esther Ed Segal
• Assisted by: Erich Segal (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.1983
• EAN: 9780198721161
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872116-1
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; Oxford Readings in Classical S; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; Oxford Readings in Classical S
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Plays, playscripts, drama