Aeschylus / edited by David Grene & Richmond Lattimore.

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.

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.