Plays by Nation - Greek and Roman Plays

Euripides Plays 5 - Andromache & Herakles' Children & Herakles

Euripides

Methuen

Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent In Andromache, Hektor's widow struggle...

$19.99

Cavafy - Complete poems

Cavafy - intro W. H. Auden trans Rae Dalven

Used Copy

$29.99

The Rope and Other Plays

Plautus

Penguin

The plays of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest complete works of Latin literature we possess. Plautus adapted for the amusement of Roman audiences the Greek New Comedy of the fourth century. His wit i...

$18.99

Comedies of Terence

Terence trans Echard with foreward by Robert Graves

Used Copy

Includes The Fair Andrian & The Mother-in-Law & The Self Tormentor & The Eunch & The Tricks of Phomio & The Brothers -

$35

Euripides Plays 2 - Hecuba & The Women of Troy & Iphigenia at Aulis & Cyclops

Euripides

Methuen

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playw...

$19.99

Alcestis

Euripides trans William Arrowsmith

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$29.99

Hippolytos

Euripides

Used Copy

A new translation by Robert Bagg

$19.99

The Theban Plays - King Oedipus & Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone

Sophocles

Penguin

'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-starred offspring...

$18.99

Euripides' Alcestis - A new version

Ted Hughes

Faber & Faber

"Alcestis" is the tale of a queen sacrificing herself so her husband may live. Ted Hughes' classical translation was his final work, completed just before he died. As with his other works, it goes beyond its...

$12.99

Elektra - HARDBACK

Ezra Pound & Rudd Fleming from Sophocles

Faber & Faber

A translation of "Elektra" undertaken by Ezra Pound when he was confined to St Elizabeth's hospital in Washington under indictment for treason It includes a critical apparatus of variants and notes The tex...

$12.99

Iphigenia in Taurus

Euripides trans Richmond Lattimore

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$29.99

Plautus - The Rope and Other Plays

Plautus trans E.F. Watling

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The Swaggering Soldier & The Prisoners & Brothers Meanaechmus & Pseudolus

$19.99

The Oresteian Trilogy - Agamemnon & The Choephori & The Eumenides

Aeschylus

Penguin

'Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a house's life With darkness, treachery and strife' (47) Aeschylus (525c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemn...

$16.99

Oedipus - Audio production performed by Michael Sheen & John Moffatt & Heathcote Williams & Adam Kotz & Full Cast - 2 CDs

Sophocles

Naxos AudioBooks

This fully dramatised new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece tells the anguished tale of Oedpus, who having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and become King of Thebes, gradually realises t...

$22.99

Metamorphoses - A Play

Mary Zimmerman

Northwest University Press

This highly acclaimed play, based on Ovid's 15 volume work of tranformation myths, is constructed using both ancient and contemporary language by Chicago's own Mary Zimmerman Set in and around a large po...

$17.99

The Birds

Walter Kerr from Aristophanes

Dramatic Publishing

"The intention," Walter Kerr writes, "has been to make the play sound as it might have sounded to an average Athenian sitting in a popular comic theatre" As Kerr, describes the work: The Birds (414 B.C.)...

$9.99

Terence Comedies - Girl From Andros & The Self-Tormentor & The Eunuch & Phormio & The Mother-in-Law & The Brothers

Terence

Penguin

Terence's subtle plots and sensitive characterization have had a lasting influence on modern theatre In 'translating' Greek New Comedy into a different world, the Roman dramatist Terence (c.186-159 BC) gave ...

$18.99

Plautus - Rudens & Curculio & Casina

Plautus trans Christopher Stage

Used Copy

$19.99

Medea - STUDENT EDITION with Notes & Commentary

Euripides trans J Michael Walton

Methuen

A Student Edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handl...

$15.99

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays - Prometheus Bound & The Suppliants & Seven Against Thebes & The Persian

Aeschylus

Penguin

The first of the great Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven surviveOf the four included in this volume, The Persians is unique in Greek tragedy in having as its subject m...

$14.99