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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian (Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature and Theater Studies, Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature and Theater Studies, Duke University)

Based 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. The volume brings together four major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Burian, an extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage; Persians, translated by Janet Lembke and C. John Herington, a masterful telling of the Persian Wars from the view of the defeated; and Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon, a richly symbolic play about the feuding sons of Oedipus. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

About Peter Burian (Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature and Theater Studies, Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature and Theater Studies, Duke University)

Peter Burian is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies, at Duke University. Alan Shapiro is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Prometheus Bound ; The Suppliants ; Persians ; Seven Against Thebes

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CIN0195373286VG
9780195373288
0195373286
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian (Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature and Theater Studies, Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature and Theater Studies, Duke University)
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