The Homeric Hymns, 2nd Edition

In his acclaimed translations of the hymns, offering a straightforward, Apostolos Athanassakis preserves the essential simplicity of the original Greek, line-by-line translation that makes no attempts to masquerade or modernize. Attributed by the ancients to homer, or preludes, these prooimia, were actually composed over centuries and used by poets to prepare for the singing or recitation of longer portions of the Homeric epics.

For this long-awaited new edition, athanassakis enhances his classic work with a comprehensive index, careful and selective changes in the translations themselves, and numerous additions to the notes which will enrich the reader's experience of these ancient and influential poems. A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry.

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Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield

The theogony traces the origins of the Greek gods and recounts the events surrounding the crowning of Zeus as their king. Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine and the mundane, respectively.

For this eagerly anticipated revised edition, Athanassakis has provided an expanded introduction on Hesiod and his work, significantly augmented the notes and index, subtly amended his faithful translations, and updated the bibliography. Already a classic, hesiod: theogony, Works and Days, Shield is now more valuable than ever for students of Greek mythology and literature.

A manual of moral instruction in verse, the Works and Days was addressed to farmers and peasants. Introducing his celebrated translations of these two poems and of the Shield, Apostolos Athanassakis positions Hesiod simultaneously as a philosopher-poet, a bard with deep roots in the culture of his native Boeotia, a very ancient poem of disputed authorship, and the heir to a long tradition of Hellenic poetry.

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Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

Johns hopkins University Press. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. They succeeded. Greek tragedies, ” translated by david grene; sophocles’s “antigone, ” translated by david grene; sophocles’s “oedipus the King, ” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon, ” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides’s “Hippolytus, ” translated by David Grene.

In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Used book in Good Condition. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.

New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. 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. Today, chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century.

Under the expert management of eminent classicists david grene and Richmond Lattimore, Sophocles, those translations combined accuracy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, poetic immediacy, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations.



Works and Days and Theogony Hackett Classics

Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. Robert lamberton's introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. Katz, wesleyan university, in CHOICE Johns hopkins University Press. Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its cultural milieu and transmits it in an appealing, lively, and accessible style will now turn to Lombardo.

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Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays.

Greek tragedies, ” translated by william arrowsmith; and euripides’s “alecestis, ” translated by david grene; sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus, ” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes, ” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae, Volume III contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides, ” translated by Richmond Lattimore.

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. Under the expert management of eminent classicists david grene and Richmond Lattimore, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, those translations combined accuracy, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations.

Used book in Good Condition. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. Used book in Good Condition. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.



Metamorphoses Penguin Classics

Penguin Books. Used book in Good Condition. Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by david RaeburnIn Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings.

Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Pyramus and Thisbe, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Used book in Good Condition.

Johns hopkins University Press. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Used book in Good Condition. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

Theogony & Works and Days Focus Classical Library

Johns hopkins University Press. Used book in Good Condition. Greek poet hesiod took many lines of thought and knowledge - myth, fable, personal experience, practical understanding - and wove them into one great whole. Caldwell’s take on the Theogony. Penguin Books. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition.

Here, stephanie nelson’s translation of Works and Days is paired with Richard S. Along with introductory essays, these comprehensible versions of Hesiod’s two best-known poems make it easy for readers to see why Hesiod’s writings continue to resound through the ages. He did as much with the origins of the Greek gods in the Theogony, and then did the same in creating his manual of moral and practical advice, Works and Days.

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Oresteia

Great product! Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. After reading this translation, one has but one further wish: to see it and hear it at Delphi, Epidaurus or Syracuse. Herman van looy, l'Antiquite Classique Johns hopkins University Press. Used book in Good Condition.

Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the images--of the Aeschylean text. Penguin Books.

The Odyssey

Used book in Good Condition. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends  retold here, fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, to savor, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, contemporary idiom, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

Used book in Good Condition. Great product! Sing to me of the man, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, Muse, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins robert fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement.

If the iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Penguin Books. The great epic of western literature, winner of the pen/ralph manheim medal for translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesA Penguin Classic   Robert Fagles, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation.

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Aeschylus II: The Oresteia The Complete Greek Tragedies

The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written.

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Used book in Good Condition. Penguin Books. 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.

Today, chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. They succeeded. Used book in Good Condition. Aeschylus ii contains “the oresteia, and fragments of “Proteus, ” translated by Richmond Lattimore, ” translated by Mark Griffith.

New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.

Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus The Complete Greek Tragedies

Euripides v includes the plays “the bacchae, ” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis, ” translated by Charles R. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Used book in Good Condition. Great product!

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. Sixty years ago, students, the university of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, and readers.

Used book in Good Condition. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles.

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