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Greek Tragedies II

Five classical Greek tragedies from three great playwrights of the era, featuring updated translations and new introductions.

This anthology volume offers a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago’s nine-volume Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of readers for personal libraries as well as for classroom use. The third edition updates the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous, and new introductions for each play provide essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.

Praise for The Complete Greek Tragedies

“These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.” —Robert Brustein, The New Republic

“This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it, everybody.” —Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

“Offers better value than any other existing verse translation.” —Times Literary Supplement

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Mark Griffith is a professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Albany, CA.  Trained at Cambridge, Griffith is an enormously accomplished expert on the Greek Tragedies. Glenn W. Most studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale and is currently professor of ancient Greek at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and a visiting member of the Committe on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  He divides his time between Pisa, Florence, and Chicago. Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought.

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