TY - BOOK AU - Aeschylus. AU - Benardete,Seth AU - Grene,David AU - Lattimore,Richmond AU - Griffith,Mark AU - Most,Glenn W. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. AU - Aeschylus. TI - Aeschylus T2 - The complete Greek tragedies SN - 9780226311449 AV - PA3827 .A466 2013 U1 - 882.01 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chicago, London PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Aeschylus KW - Danaus, KW - Prometheus KW - Agamemnon, KW - Aeschylus. KW - Persian Wars (Greece : 500-449 B.C.) KW - fast KW - Greek drama (Tragedy) KW - Translations into English KW - Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) KW - Drama KW - Erinyes (Greek mythology) KW - Greek literature, Hellenistic KW - Greece KW - History KW - Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C KW - Translations N1 - Vol. 1. Introduction to Aeschylus -- How the plays were originally staged -- The Persians / translated by Seth Benardete -- The seven against Thebes / translated by David Grene -- The suppliant maidens / translated by Seth Benardete -- Prometheus bound / translated by David Grene -- vol. 2. The Oresteia / translated by Richmond Lattimore -- Agamemnon -- The libation bearers -- The Eumenides -- Proteus (fragments) / translated by Mark Griffith N2 - Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century ER -