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Greek Tragedies, Volume 2. Aeschylus The Libation Bearers; Sophocles Electra; Euripides Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Carson, Emily Townsend Vermeule is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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__Greek Tragedies, Volume II__ contains Aeschylus’s “The Libation Bearers,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Electra,” translated by David Grene; Euripides’s “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; Euripides’s “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule; and Euripides’s “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the an
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- Author
- Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Carson, Emily Townsend Vermeule
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226035765
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry
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