Aeschylus, 2 - The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound

Informationen zum Autor Edited by David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie. Translations by David R. Slavitt, Stephen Sandy, Gail Holst-Warhaft, and William Matthews Klappentext The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Arist Zusammenfassung A volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus which relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece! the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes! the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle! the king of Egypt. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, by Palmer Bovie The Persians —Translated by David R. Slavitt Seven Against Thebes —Translated by Stephen Sandy The Suppliants —Translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft Prometheus Bound —Translated by William Matthews Pronouncing Glossary of Names About the Translators

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• Authors: Aeschylus, David R. Bovie Slavitt, Sophocles
• Assisted by: Palmer Bovie (Editor), David R Slavitt (Editor), David R. Slavitt (Editor), Gail Holst-Warhaft (Translation), William Matthews (Translation), Stephen Sandy (Translation), David R Slavitt (Translation), David R. Slavitt (Translation)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780812216714
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1671-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Aeschylus; Penn Greek Drama Series; Aeschylus; Penn Greek Drama
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies