Tenth Muse
Classical Drama in Translation
Will be published approx. on 5. November 1991
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-0-8040-0781-8 (ISBN)
Description
Although classical drama has been translated before, this new collection is unique. The translations are modern in their poetry; the translations include poets as well as classicists; and the collection includes at least one example of every known type of ancient Greek and Latin drama. Plays included are The Danaids and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; Philoctetes by Sophocles; The Bacchai and Cyclops by Euripides; Peace by Aristophanes; The Rope by Plautus; Thyestes by Seneca.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ohio
United States
Publishing group
Ohio University Press
Product notice
Paper over boards
ISBN-13
978-0-8040-0781-8 (9780804007818)
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Content
Aeschylus. The suppliants. Prometheus bound.--Sophocles. Philoctetes.--Euripides. The cyclops. The Bacchai.--Aristophanes. Peace.--Plautus. The rope.--Seneca. Thyestes.