Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father.Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
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Greek TragedyChronological TableIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the TextsPreface to AgamemnonAgamemnon by AeschylusPreface to Oedipus RexOedipus Rex by SophoclesPreface to MedeaMedea by EuripidesPreface to FrogsExtracts from Frogs by AristophanesPreface to PoeticsExtracts from Poetics by AristotleNotesGenealogical TablesMap of Ancient Greece
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ISBN
9780141439365
Publisert
2004
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
258 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

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AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave.


Simon Goldhill (introducer) is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King's College where he is Director of Studies in Classics. He has published widely on many aspects of Greek literature, especially tragedy. He is in great demand as a lecturer all over the world, and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television on classical matters.

Shomit Dutta (editor) was educated at University College Oxford, and King's College London, and has taught classics at Radley College and Harrow School, and Oxford. He is also a freelance arts reviewer, and has published a translation of Sophocles' Ajax (Cambridge).