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Six Greek Tragedies: Persians; Prometheus Bound; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes; Trojan Women; Bacchae

Six Greek Tragedies: Persians; Prometheus Bound; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes; Trojan Women; Bacchae

Raphael, Stephen
McLeish, Kenneth
McDonald, Marianne

Paperback

Series: Classical Dramatists

Plays

ISBN10: 041377256X
ISBN13: 9780413772565
Publisher: A&c Black 3pl
Published: Sep 19 2002
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies


In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies, presenting an archetype of the human condition; Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a deeply poignant piece, portraying Heracles' death through his wife's mistake; his strange Philoctetes, which presents a fascinating moral debate and a young man's realisation of the importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides' Trojan Women, the greatest anti-war play ever written; and his intangible Bacchae, a play full of paradoxes which functions at many different levels.

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