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The Complete Greek Tragedies #2

Greek Tragedies: Volume 2

david grene richmond lattimore aeschylus sophocles euripides

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In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 15,1960
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The Complete Greek Tragedies

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304 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 1991 by University of Chicago Press
ISBN
9780226307756
ASIN
0226307751
Language
English

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rosewoof
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April 17,2025
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tragic :( but i liked having multiple versions of the same play bc its fun to see the small differences between them!! loved electra i had been looking for a copy of it for a while, and i had already read the trojan women but it was a good reread ! good vibes (aside from the tragedies)
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chirag0010
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April 17,2025
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actually I am reading the University of Chicago translation but I already have the volume marked as 'read' due to The Bacchae


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What a bizarre take on the Electra story. There are elements of what is to come in the Aeschylus telling, but the action in this Electra is very earth-bound and intensely mundane. The murders of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra are not couched in the epic diction of the other tragedians. Electra's situation is homespun and not tragic like in Sophocles or even Hoffmannsthal.

The bizarre take on legend that you would expect from Euripides.
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Saruwatari-san
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April 17,2025
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five plays

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers
Sophocles: Electra
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides: Electra
Euripides: The Trojan Women
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ryuu_no_yoake
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April 17,2025
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I'm sticking with the on-line Ian Johnston translation of the Oreistia, in this case The Libation Bearers.... It was short and quick; direct. Definitely a middle to a story.
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Luksans
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April 17,2025
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I'm really enjoying this series-Greek tragedies are so compelling! This volume in the series was good, however there were truly only 3 different plays-one of which was repeated 3 times, though they were separate retellings. The order of the plays was also a bit strange-there was a sequence to the different plays-they were all from a central story and the same world, but the plays were not in that sequence.

Personally, Iphigenia in Tauris was my favorite, but they were all great, though The Trojan Women was pretty heartbreaking (as expected for a Greek tragedy).

I really enjoyed the plays, and I do appreciate the groupings, this is a great read-I would recommend the other volumes as well, I'm really looking forward to the next volume!
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ioaus09
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April 17,2025
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I couldn’t quite finish the last play, “The Trojan Women”, but did enjoy the others.
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Aerynia
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April 17,2025
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Took me a bit too get through them, even in translation it was difficult to understand at point. Probably because there were really characters and the chorus had most of the lines
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