Répertoire de la Littérature Ancienne Et Moderne, Vol. 2
by Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur: Bis auf Alexander den Grossen (Classic Reprint)
by Karl Sittl
Sophocles: Electra (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
by Jennifer R. March
King Agamemnon is long dead and his murderers rule at Argos. His son Orestes returns from exile to kill themuhis own mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. Thus he will release his sister Electra from oppression and reclaim his home and kingdom. This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C.uAeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the Oresteia trilogy), Sophocles and Euripides each in...
Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2 (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more. Three of these dramatise successive phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous Odysseus brought about the judicial murder of the culture-hero Palamedes and of the terrible revenge taken by Palamedes' father Nauplius. The volume also includes dramas about the first day's fighting of the Trojan War ( The Shepherds ), about the f...
Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a complete new collation of the manuscripts, many of which have never been adequately reported before. The extensive commentary explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on the realiti...
Le Théâtre des Chinois: Étude de Murs Comparées (Classic Reprint)
by Tcheng-Ki-Tong Tcheng-Ki-Tong
Lucian, Vol. 2 of 7: With an English Translation (Classic Reprint)
by Lucian Of Samosata
Causeries Historiques Et Litteraires (Classic Reprint)
by Emile Souvestre
The Odes and Epodes, And, the Satires and Epistles: Edited With Introduction and Commentary (Classic Reprint)
by Horace Horace
Mico da Siena e una Ballata del Decamerone (Classic Reprint)
by Guido Mazzoni
The Day of Judgment (Classic Reprint)
by Aleksandr Andreevich Arkhangelskii
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Vol. 59 (Classic Reprint)
by Franz Buecheler
Hermes, 1882, Vol. 17: Zeitschrift für Classische Philologie (Classic Reprint)
by Georg Kaibel