The Complete Aeschylus - Vol II: Persians and Other Plays

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The Complete Aeschylus - Vol II: Persians and Other PlaysGreek Tragedy in New Translations This the second volume of a two volume series. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four

Based on the award-winning children’s series

Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech

containing all of the best-known myths

George Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century

His writings are of wider scope than Plato's

Phaedra/Oedipus/Medea/Trojan Women/Hercules Furens/Thyestes

and the song of Odysseus must ring through Ithaca's halls

her daughter remains in Pompeii

Though in modern times this is perhaps the most popular of his works

and in their encounter Virgil explores timeless themes of love and loyalty

she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese

and always pointed