The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays - Rilegato

Burian, Peter; Shapiro, Alan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0195373375 ISBN 13: 9780195373370

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2009

Riassunto

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 major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Burian, an extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage; Persians, translated by Janet Lembke and C. John Herington, a masterful telling of the Persian Wars from the view of the defeated; and Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon, a richly symbolic play about the feuding sons of Oedipus. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Peter Burian is Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies at Duke University. Alan Shapiro is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A winner of the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader's Digest award for 1992-95, he is the author of several poetry collections, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy.

Contenuti:

• Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal: Bakkhai
• Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff: Herakles
• Peter Burian and Brian Swamm: The Phoenician Women

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195373375
• ISBN 13: 9780195373370
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 432