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Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus (Author), Glenn W. Most (Editor, Translator), Seth Benardete (Editor, Translator), David Grene (Editor, Translator), Richmond Lattimore (Editor, Translator), Mark Griffith (Editor, Translator) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Aeschylus I contains “The Persians,” translated by Seth Benardete; “The Seven Against Thebes,” translated by David Grene; “The Suppliant Maidens,” translated by Seth Benardete; and “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene. 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 ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translatio
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- Author
- Aeschylus (Author), Glenn W. Most (Editor, Translator), Seth Benardete (Editor, Translator), David Grene (Editor, Translator), Richmond Lattimore (Editor, Translator), Mark Griffith (Editor, Translator)
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226311432
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Drama
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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