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The Oresteian Trilogy
Penguin Books Ltd 1973; Not AvailableAeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero?s discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife?s infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra?s crime is repaid in The Choephori when her... more...
The Complete Aeschylus, Volume I
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 11.99Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Aeschylus'... more...
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 3.95The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia , which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ruler in heaven, Zeus, heralds the end of this cycle and the beginning of hope. Zeus has suffered and sinned and grown wise,... more...
Prometheus Bound
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 6.95"This is the best Prometheus Bound in English. Deborah Roberts' translation is accurate, readable, and true to the original in idiom, imagery, and the combination of a high style with occasional colloquialism. The informative notes and perceptive Introduction will help readers to experience the play with heightened pleasure and understanding."... more...
Prometheus Bound
Oxford University Press, USA 1975; US$ 11.99For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance... more...
Aesop's Fables
Oxford University Press, UK 2002; US$ 8.99This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek derived from the legendary Aesop, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English. - ;'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole... more...
Cicero's style
BRILL 2003; US$ 156.00An analysis of Cicero's style, covering differences of literary genres, nuances of style in individual works, and chronological development. There is an account of fixed elements typical of Cicero's diction, and interpretative studies discuss the relationship of style and context in the orations. more...
Interpretationen und Unterrichtsvorschläge zu Ovids »Metamorphosen«
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 17.25Hauptbeschreibung In diesem Lehrerkommentar sind alle in der EXEMPLA-Ausgabe enthaltenen Texte sorgfältig interpretiert. Die Interpretationen stützen sich auf die wissenschaftliche Forschung und sind ausgerichtet auf die Bedürfnisse der Schule. Für Tafelbilder und die Berücksichtigung der Rezeption von bildender Kunst, Oper und Film werden ebenso... more...
Homer
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 20.99This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homers Iliad , the greatest poem of Western culture. It discusses central aspects of the work (including the tradition of oral poetry, the style and structure of the epic, and its depiction of the gods, heroism, war, and gender roles) and guides the reader in understanding the skill and... more...









