Women of Trachis
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate 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...
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195070095 (0195070097)
Publish date: March 1st 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Humanities,
Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Tragedy,
Mythology,
Classical Studies
This is the only Herculean play of Sophocles that we have, and when I use the term Herculean, it is not in the big and massive context that we generally use the term, but rather the story focuses around the Greek hero Heracles. This play could also have the subtitle of 'The Death of Heracles' and in...
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